Elmina
town in Central Region, Ghana
Facts
10 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official website
- keeama.gov.gh[8]
- Native label
- Elmina[12]
Location
- Country
- Ghana, Portuguese Empire, Ghana[3][4]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 5.083°, -1.350°, 🗺️ 5.085°, -1.351°[6][7]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem Municipal District[2]
More facts +3
- Described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[9][10]
- History of topic
- history of Elmina[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Edina
en Elmina
ar ألمينا
he אלמינה
ja エルミナ
ko 엘미나
nl Edina
pt São Jorge da Mina
ru Эльмина
uk Ельміна
zh 埃尔米纳
🔖 Identifiers · 20
- VIAF cluster ID
- 126769506
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- n88028936
- GND ID
- 4453342-1
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Benya lagoon and it surroundings located in Elmina.jpg ↗
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 11943433g
- De Agostini ID
- Elmina
- Freebase ID
- /m/054mss
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -2072862
- GeoNames ID
- 2301190
- Harper's tag
- elmina
- IdRef ID
- 02737999X
- J9U entity ID
- 987007567360105171
Show all 20 identifiers +8
- Lex ID
- Elmina
- RKD thesaurus ID
- 51977
- Topic's main category
- Category:Elmina
- Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
- elmina
- U.S. National Archives Identifier
- 10044472
- Who's on First ID
- 1125987943
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJtH3GxXt9vrV64tdJRHYP
- Yale LUX ID
- place/348e2548-5ff8-4f64-8792-eb46494738c6
📚 Sources · 1
- GeoNames CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
⛏️ Lake Facts
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PopulationP1082
34,403
2026-09-26
P/PPL · GH
GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
as of 2026-09-26
where from?
- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
- Bronze
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Located in time zoneP421
Africa/Accra
2026-09-26
P/PPL · GH
GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
as of 2026-09-26
where from?
- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
- Bronze
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CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
Located in this place 8
People born here 5
People who died here 5
Country 2
Capital of 1
Contained subdivisions 1
Continent 1
Described by source 1
Instance of 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Located in time zone 1
Residents 1
Topic's main category 1
← Capital 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Narrative location 1
← Work location 1
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