Kpando is a town and the capital of the Kpando Municipal District in the northern Volta Region of Ghana, near the north-eastern arm of Lake Volta and the border with Togo. With 28,334 people it is the fifty-fourth most populous place in Ghana. Ferry and road link it to Gbefi, Hohoe, Ho and Dambai, and the journey from Accra takes about four hours. Its people, called the Akpini, are Ewes believed to have been part of the third wave of migrations from Notse, escaping the tyrant Togbe Agorkoli about 450 years ago. The Kpando Municipality is one of the oldest administrative districts in Ghana.
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Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Kpando (Wikipedia)
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with a population of 28,334 people
Part Of: Ghana, Lead, location
in the northern Volta Region of Ghana
View the Source2. Opentopodata (SRTM): SRTM 90 m elevation at 7.0,0.3
Opentopodata (SRTM)Elevation of the place coordinates 7.0,0.3, band assigned from the figure (up to 10 m sea level, otherwise lowland)Quote, Elevation of the place coordinates 7.0,0.3, band assigned from the figure (up to 10 m sea level, otherwise lowland)
"elevation": 149.0
3. CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive): The World Factbook archive: Ghana
CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive)Geography.Climate.textQuote, Geography.Climate.text
tropical; warm and comparatively dry along southeast coast; hot and humid in southwest; hot and dry in north
4. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA tz database, backward file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseLink line for Africa/AccraQuote, Link line for Africa/Accra
Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Accra
Ghana (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationOn Continent: Africa, LeadQuote, On Continent: Africa, Lead
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.
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