Yendi
Sign in to saveYendi (, meaning "Seat of the Yaa Naa"), is the traditional capital of the Kingdom of Dagbon and the administrative centre of the Yendi Municipal District in the Northern Region of Ghana. As of 2021, the population of Yendi was 154,421 comprising 76,142 males and 78,279 females. It is the seat of the King of the Dagbon, Ghana's oldest kingdom.
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It sits within the topics Dagbon, Populated places in the Northern Region (Ghana) and Use Ghanaian English from January 2023.
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- Locality
- Yendi
- Region
- Northern Region
- Country
- Ghana
- Population
- 64,676
- Timezone
- Africa/Accra
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.timezone
- GMT
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2012
- Settlement.population_total
- 52,008
- Settlement.official_name
- Yendi
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town & District Capital
- Settlement.image_skyline
- The Yendi cathedral in northern Ghana.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- The Yendi cathedral
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ghana
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Yendi in Northern region
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ghana
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Northern Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Yendi Municipal District
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Ghana
- Located in
- Yendi Municipal District
- Continent
- Africa
- Population
- 51339
- Elevation
- 155
- Image
- Yendi, Ghana.JPG
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Yendi (, meaning "Seat of the Yaa Naa"), is the traditional capital of the Kingdom of Dagbon and the administrative centre of the Yendi Municipal District in the Northern Region of Ghana. As of 2021, the population of Yendi was 154,421 comprising 76,142 males and 78,279 females. It is the seat of the King of the Dagbon, Ghana's oldest kingdom.
==History== thumb|right|250px|A typical Yendi household in 1957
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yendi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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