Buduburam
Buduburam is a refugee camp located 44 kilometers west of Accra, Ghana. It is along the Accra-Cape Coast Highway. Opened by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 1990, the camp is home to more than 12,000 refugees from Liberia who fled their country during the First Liberian Civil War and the Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003.Photo: Acarvin, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Localities in the Area
Kasoa
Town
Kasoa, formerly known as Odupongkpehe, is a peri-urban town in the Awutu Senya East Municipal District of the Central region of Ghana. Kasoa is situated 4½ km east of Buduburam.
Buduburam
- Type: Town with 63,200 residents
- Description: city in Central Region, Ghana
- Categories: refugee camp and locality
- Location: Gomoa East District, Central Region, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
5.5235° or 5° 31' 25" northLongitude
-0.4776° or 0° 28' 40" westPopulation
63,200Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)Open Location Code
6CQXGGFC+9WOpenStreetMap ID
node 990129055OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2302541Wikidata ID
Q4985179Buduburam Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Basque: Buduburam
- Belarusian: Будубурам
- Chinese: 布都布拉姆
- Czech: Buduburam
- Dutch: Buduburam
- English: Buduburam Refugee Camp
- French: Buduburam
- German: Buduburam
- Greek: Μπουντουμπούραμ
- Hebrew: בודובורם
- Italian: Buduburam
- Japanese: ブドゥブラム
- Japanese: ブドゥブラム・キャンプ
- Japanese: ブドゥブラム難民キャンプ
- Lithuanian: Buduburamas
- Polish: Buduburam
- Spanish: Buduburam
- Bruburam
- Budumburan
Localities in the Area
- Fete KrabaVillage
- Awutu BerekuTown, 4 km west
- OdupongkpeheSuburb, 6 km east
- AkotsiVillage, 7 km west
- AkramangHamlet, 7 km west
Landmarks in the Area
- St. Gregory Catholic HospitalHospital
- Ghana Police ServicePolice station
- Apra HillPeak
- Gethsemane AssemblyChurch
- Winners Chapel InternationalChurch, 4 km east
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Buduburam. Photo: Acarvin, CC BY-SA 2.5.