Place:Elmina, Central, Ghana

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NameElmina
Alt namesSão Jorge da Minasource: Times Atlas of World History (1993) p 355
TypeCity
Coordinates5.15°N 1.317°W
Located inCentral, Ghana     (1482 - )
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Elmina, also known as Edina by the local Fante, is a town and the capital of the Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem District on the south coast of Ghana in the Central Region, situated on a bay on the Atlantic Ocean, west of Cape Coast. Elmina was the first European settlement in West Africa and it has a population of 33,576 people.[1]

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