Sekondi

Sekondi Takoradi, a metropolis comprising the twin towns of Sekondi and Takoradi. It is the capital of Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan District and the Western Region of Ghana. Sekondi Takoradi is the place's biggest metropolis and an business and industrial centre, with a populace of 445,205 human beings. Sekondi, older and large, become the website online of Dutch Fort Orange and English Fort Sekondi. It prospered from a railroad built in 1903 to hinterland mineral and timber sources.

Takoradi become the website of Dutch Fort Witsen and has an important deepwater seaport, Ghana's first, built in 1928. During World War II, RAF Takoradi turned into an critical staging factor for British aircraft destined for Egypt. Spitfire fighter planes were shipped in crates from England to Takoradi wherein they had been assembled then flown via Nigeria and Sudan to the conflict in Libya. 26 Squadron SAAF was also primarily based in Takoradi for the duration of World War II flying anti-submarine and convoy protection patrols over the Atlantic. A wide variety of South African airmen are buried in the Takoradi European Public cemetery. The cities combined in 1946. On 20 November 1969, the town have become the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sekondi–Takoradi.