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Elmina: History, Geography, Community & Culture

Elmina (Fante: Edina) is a town and the capital of the Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem District on the south coast of Ghana in the Central Region. It is situated on a bay on the Atlantic Ocean, 12.2 km (7.6 mi) west of Cape Coast. Elmina was the first European settlement in West Africa and it has a population of 33,576 people, as of 2013. The current…

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Elmina topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Geography, Community and Culture as prominent areas in the source structure around Elmina.

Related topics
90
Source areas
10
Connected nodes
105
Extracted relationships
179
Concept neighborhoods
39
Bridge connections
105

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 33 topics
History · 19 topics
Notable people · 14 topics
Geography · 6 topics
Demographics · 5 topics
Sister cities · 4 topics
Economy · 3 topics
GalleryElmina Ghana 3.jpg · 3 topics
Administration · 2 topics
Culture · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Area code
033
Climate
Aw
Country
Ghana
District
Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem Municipal District
Elevation
10 m (33 ft)
Postal district
CK

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Economy

Demographics

Administration

Geography

GalleryElmina Ghana 3.jpg

Culture

Sister cities

Notable people

Bibliography

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Elmina connects Entity context

The extracted context around Elmina shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Elmina → Adjaye, African, Africans, Americas, April, Brill, Charles Francis Hutchison, Diffie, Doortmont, Foundations, Gold Coast Colony, History, ISBN, Konadu, Kwasi, Leiden, Little Europe, Malyn, Michel, Minnesota Press Another extracted example is Elmina → Alcáçovas, Battle, Castilian, Castilian Succession, Catholic Monarchs, Dutch Gold Coast, Eguafo, European, Ghana, Gold Coast, Guinea, In, Many, Portuguese, Portuguese Gold Coast, The, This, Treaty, War, West African. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Elmina

Top relations

related to Bibliography · 32
Elmina → Adjaye, African, Africans, Americas, April, Brill, Charles Francis Hutchison, Diffie, Doortmont, Foundations, Gold Coast Colony, History, ISBN, Konadu, Kwasi, Leiden, Little Europe, Malyn, Michel, Minnesota Press
related to Colonization era · 20
Elmina → Alcáçovas, Battle, Castilian, Castilian Succession, Catholic Monarchs, Dutch Gold Coast, Eguafo, European, Ghana, Gold Coast, Guinea, In, Many, Portuguese, Portuguese Gold Coast, The, This, Treaty, War, West African
related to Culture · 19
Elmina → Bakatue, Bakatue Festival, Bronya, Central Region, Christmas, Dutch, Europeans, Ghana, Ghanaian, It, January, July, Lagoon, Nana Benya's, Portuguese, The, The Edina Bronya Festival, Thursday, Tuesday
related to Climate · 13
Elmina → April, Benguela Current, December, February, Ghana, July, June, Köppen Aw, Like, November, September, Typically, West African
related to Early settlement · 12
Elmina → After, Anomansa, Anomee, Based, Benya Lagoon, Edina, Eguafo, He, It, Kwaa Amankwaa, M'enya, The
related to Fishing · 10
Elmina → About, Although, Elmina Fishing Harbour, Ghana, Ghana's, In August, It, May, Sekondi, Tema
related to Municipality area · 10
Elmina → Cape Coast, Cape Coast Metropolitan, Guinea, Gulf, Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem Municipal, Mpohor, The, Twifo/Hemang/Lower Denkyira District, Wassa East District, Western Region
related to Etymology · 9
Elmina → Anomansah, Benya, Elmina Castle, It, Mina, Portuguese, Prior, São Jorge, The
related to Further reading · 8
Elmina → Africans, An, Christopher, DeCorse, Europeans, Gold Coast, ISBN, Smithsonian Institution Press
related to Tourism · 7
Elmina → CEDECOM, Central Region Development Commission, Due, Elmina Castle, Fort Coenraadsburg, The, Tourism

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

portuguese coast ghana town castle dutch eguafo region fishing gold west people edina trade first isbn african settlement south cape

Elmina relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 179 structured relationships around Elmina. Examples in this analysis include Elmina → Area code → 033 and Elmina → Climate → Aw. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ElminaArea code0331.00infobox
ElminaClimateAw1.00infobox
ElminaCountryGhana1.00infobox
ElminaDistrictKomenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem Municipal District1.00infobox
ElminaElevation10 m (33 ft)1.00infobox
ElminaPostal districtCK1.00infobox
ElminaRegionCentral Region1.00infobox
ElminaTime zoneGMT1.00infobox
ElminaWebsitekeeama.gov.gh1.00infobox
Elmina• Municipal chiefHon. Solomon Ebo Appiah1.00infobox
Elmina• ReligionsChristianity1.00infobox
Elmina• ReligionsIslam1.00infobox
Elmina• Religionstraditional African religions1.00infobox
Elmina• Summer (DST)GMT1.00infobox
Elmina• Total33,5761.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Elmina bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Ghana, Coast and Castle. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Elmina
    • Ghana
    • Coast
    • Castle
    • Town
    • Region
    • Trade
    • Dutch
    • Central
    • Portuguese
    • First
    • Fishing
    • Africa
  • elmina
    • Ghana
    • Coast
    • Castle
    • Town
    • Region
    • Trade
    • Dutch
    • Central
    • Portuguese
    • First
    • Fishing
    • Africa
  • komenda/edina/eguafo/abirem district
    • Komenda
    • Abirem
    • Edina
    • Eguafo
    • Municipal
    • South
    • Africa
    • Municipality
    • Region
    • Area
    • Central
    • Chief
  • ghana
    • Komenda
    • Region
    • Town
    • Africa
    • Area
    • Chief
    • Guinea
    • Solomon
    • Municipal
    • South
    • African
    • Fishing
  • central region
    • Region
    • Edina
    • District
    • Komenda
    • Tourism
    • Ghana
    • South
    • Town
    • Castle
    • Area
    • Eguafo
    • King
  • cape coast
    • Gold
    • Guinea
    • Cape
    • Coast
    • South
    • Elmina
    • Dutch
    • West
    • District
    • Portuguese
    • Region
    • Trade
  • west africa
    • Area
    • District
    • Settlement
    • People
    • African
    • Cape
    • Culture
    • Ebo
    • Ghana
    • Municipality
    • South
    • Central
  • gold coast
    • Gold
    • Guinea
    • Cape
    • Elmina
    • Portuguese
    • Dutch
    • District
    • South
    • Region
    • Trade
    • Castle
    • Ghana

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Elmina, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Elmina with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Elmina — Overview · splits 72 ⟂ 34
Elmina — History · splits 86 ⟂ 20
Elmina — Notable people · splits 91 ⟂ 15
Elmina — Geography · splits 99 ⟂ 7
Elmina — Demographics · splits 100 ⟂ 6
Elmina — Sister cities · splits 101 ⟂ 5
Elmina — Bibliography · splits 101 ⟂ 5
Elmina — Economy · splits 102 ⟂ 4
Elmina — GalleryElmina Ghana 3.jpg · splits 102 ⟂ 4
Elmina — Administration · splits 103 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Elmina

Nodes106
Edges105
Triples179
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018868
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Elmina to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Geography, Community & Culture, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Elmina · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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