Lomé
Lomé | |
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From top to bottom, left to right: Palace of the Governors, headquarters of the West African Development Bank, Monument Colombe de la Paix, Lomé Beach, and the Grande Marché in front of the Sacred Heart Cathedral. | |
Location of Lomé in Togo | |
| Coordinates: 06°07′51″N 01°12′55″E / 6.13083°N 1.21528°E | |
| Country | Togo |
| Region | Maritime Region |
| Prefecture | Golfe |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Aouissi Lodé |
| Area | |
| 99.14 km2 (38.28 sq mi) | |
| • Metro | 280 km2 (110 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 10 m (30 ft) |
| Population (2022 census) | |
| 1,500,000 | |
| • Density | 15,000/km2 (40,000/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 2,200,000 |
| • Metro density | 7,150/km2 (18,500/sq mi) |
| • Ethnicities | Ewe |
| Time zone | UTC+00:00 (GMT) |
| HDI (2019) | 0.610 medium · 1st |
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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 while there were 2,188,376 permanent residents in its metropolitan area as of the 2022 census. 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.
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.