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Cape Coast

Cape Coast is a city in the Coastal Plain region of Ghana. It's a 2 hour 15 minutes (144. Wikivoyage

Population 189,925 (Wikidata)

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Before you go

Emergency numbers in Ghana

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Ghana

Getting there

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Still gathering the markets around Cape Coast. I'll let you know here when it's all in — or open the live guide.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Fetu Afahye

    September

    Fetu Afahye is a festival celebrated by the chiefs and people of Cape Coast in the Central region of Ghana. The festival is celebrated on the first Saturday in September every year.

    Wikipedia

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage; descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Getting around

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