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Aflao

Aflao is a border town in the Ketu South District in the Volta Region of Ghana on the border with Togo.

Aflao
Aflao · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Aflao is a border town in the Ketu South District in the Volta Region of Ghana on the border with Togo. It is the twenty-eighth most populous settlement in Ghana, with a population of 66,546 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Aflao

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    University of Lomé

    The University of Lomé is a public university in Togo, located in the capital Lomé. It is the country's largest university.

    5 km · university in Togo · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Togo National Museum

    Togo National Museum is the national museum of Togo, located in the capital of Lomé. Founded in 1975, it features cultural and historical exhibits.

    4.5 km · Museum in Maritime, Togo · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Sacred Heart Cathedral

    The Sacred Heart Cathedral is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lomé, one of the seven Catholic church districts of Togo. Built in just over a year by the German colonial authorities, it quickly became one of the iconic buildings of the new capital of Togo.

    5.7 km · cathedral · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    National Library of Togo

    The National Library of Togo is the national library of Togo and is located in the capital, Lomé.

    4.7 km · national library · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Hotel 2 Février

    The Hôtel 2 Février is a 102m, 36-story hotel in Lomé, Togo on Place De L'Indépendance street, opened in 1980. It is the tallest building in Togo.

    4.4 km · building in Togo · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Lomé Grand Market

    The Lomé Grand Market is a public market in Lomé, the capital of Togo. It is located near the famous Sacred Heart Cathedral of Lomé, at the heart of the city.

    5.6 km · large market place in the city of Lomé, the capital of Togo · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Independence Monument, Lome

    The Independence Monument in Lomé, the capital of Togo, was built as a tribute to the country's independence from France on 27 April 1960. It features a white bust of a woman holding up a cooking pot, in front of a silhouette of a figure holding up their arms as if they were breaking chains that shackled them together.

    4.4 km · monument in Lomé, Togo · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Q141451109

    The Place des Martyrs is a commemorative square and memorial in Lomé, the capital of Togo. It is used for national remembrance ceremonies, particularly the annual Martyrs' Day on 21 June.

    4.8 km · commemorative square in Lomé · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Kekeli Restaurant

    Beat 9,.

From Wikivoyage: Aflao, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Aflao

Airports
Lomé–Tokoin (LFW), 9 km · Cotonou Cadjehoun (COO), 135 km · Kotoka (ACC), 161 km
  • Accra → Aflao
    166 km · quickest by road, 3h 23m · GH₵105–135
  • Kumasi → Aflao
    317 km · quickest by road, 7h 7m · GH₵225–300
  • Tamale → Aflao
    428 km · quickest by road, 9h 22m · GH₵310–415
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Aflao

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Aflao. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMinivans and buses leave regularly for several Ghanaian towns, with trips along the coast to Accra leaving very frequently at cheap prices.

From Wikivoyage: Aflao, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-07.

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    7 ways of moving, 13 sources

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  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

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  3. 03
    Santo AntãoCV

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

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  4. 04
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

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  5. 05
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

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If you know how people move in Aflao – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Aflao

Aflao is 5 km from Lomé, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.