Lomé
Capital, chief port, and largest city of Togo / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lomé (UK: /ˈloʊmeɪ/ LOH-may, US: /loʊˈmeɪ/ loh-MAY) is the capital and largest city of Togo. It has an urban population of 837,437[2] while there were 2,188,376 permanent residents in its metropolitan area as of the 2022 census.[3] Located on the Gulf of Guinea at the southwest corner of the country, with its entire western border along the easternmost edge of Ghana's Volta Region, Lomé is the country's administrative and industrial center, which includes an oil refinery. It is also the country's chief port, from where it exports coffee, cocoa, copra, and oil palm kernels.
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Lomé | |
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City | |
Coordinates: 6°7′55″N 1°13′22″E | |
Country | Togo |
Region | Maritime Region |
Prefecture | Golfe |
Government | |
• Mayor | Aouissi Lodé |
Area | |
• City | 99.14 km2 (38.28 sq mi) |
• Metro | 280 km2 (110 sq mi) |
Elevation | 10 m (30 ft) |
Population (2022 census) | |
• City | 1,500,000 |
• Density | 15,000/km2 (40,000/sq mi) |
• Metro | 2,200,000 |
• Metro density | 7,150/km2 (18,500/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC |
HDI (2019) | 0.579[1] medium · 1st |
Its city limits extends to the border with Ghana, located a few hundred meters west of the city center, to the Ghanaian city of Aflao and the South Ketu district where the city is situated, had 160,756 inhabitants in 2010. The cross-border agglomeration of which Lomé is the centre has about 2 million inhabitants as of 2020.