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Savelugu
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Savelugu is a town and the capital of Savelugu Municipal, a municipality in the Northern Region of north Ghana. Savelugu has a 2021 settlement population of 122,888 people. There are many villages under Savelugu kingship. Most of the villages are smaller.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in GH, across 2 mapped points.
Within Vinony's link graph, Savelugu is referenced by 202 other articles, and connects out to Northern Region, Ghana and capital city.
Vinony files it under Dagbon, Populated places in the Northern Region (Ghana) and Use Ghanaian English from January 2023.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Locality
- Savelugu
- Region
- Northern Region
- Country
- Ghana
- Population
- 40,654
- Timezone
- Africa/Accra
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Savelugu
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town & District Capital
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ghana
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location Savelugu in Northern region
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ghana
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Northern Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Savelugu-Munucipal Assembly
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2021
- Settlement.population_total
- 122,888
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.population_blank2_title
- Religions
- Settlement.timezone
- GMT
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Languages spoken
- Dagbanli
- Country
- Ghana
- Located in
- Savelugu-Nanton District
- Continent
- Africa
- Official language
- English language
- Population
- 31704
- Location
- Northern Region
- Image
- Mosque built during the Dagbon Kingdom (Savelugu, Ghana 1910).png
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- Savelugu
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Encyclopedic overview
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Savelugu is a town and the capital of Savelugu Municipal, a municipality in the Northern Region of north Ghana. Savelugu has a 2021 settlement population of 122,888 people. There are many villages under Savelugu kingship. Most of the villages are smaller.
==History== In the 19th-century Savelugu was the center of one of the major divisions of the Dagomba and ruled over by Andani who was involved in fighting with the raiding forces of the Zabarima (emirate).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Savelugu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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