Keta

Keta
Ketta, Quittah
Town & Municipality Capital
Fort Prinsensten on the beach of Keta in 1985
Fort Prinsensten on the beach of Keta in 1985
Keta is located in Ghana
Keta
Keta
Location of Keta in Volta
Coordinates: 5°55′N 0°59′E / 5.917°N 0.983°E / 5.917; 0.983
Country Ghana
Region Volta Region
DistrictKeta Municipal District
Population
 (2013)
 • Total23,207[1]
 • Density1,829/sq mi (706/km2)
 Ranked 61st in Ghana
Time zoneGMT
 • Summer (DST)GMT
Area code+233 (3626)

Keta is a coastal town in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is the capital of the Keta Municipal District.[2]

Keta is the sixty-first most populous settlement in Ghana in terms of population, with a population of 23,207.[1] Parts of the town were devastated by sea erosion between the 1960s and 1980s. Keta is mentioned in Maya Angelou's All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes.

  1. ^ a b "World Gazetteer online". World-gazetteer.com. Archived from the original on 2012-01-11.
  2. ^ Touring Ghana - Volta Region Archived 2012-04-14 at the Wayback Machine. touringghana.com.

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