Editing Winneba (section)

{{Use Ghanaian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox settlement
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|official_name          = Winneba
|other_name            = Simpa
|native_name            = <!-- for cities whose native name is not in English -->
|nickname               =
|settlement_type        = [[Town]] <!--For Town or Village (Leave blank for the default City)-->
|motto  =
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|image_skyline          = University of Education, Winneba (UEW) North Campus.jpg
|imagesize              = 250px
|image_caption          = North Campus of University of Education, Winneba
|image_blank_emblem     = 
|blank_emblem_type      = Seal
|blank_emblem_link      = Seal (emblem)
|blank_emblem_size      = 130px
|image_map              = Winneba-location.PNG
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|map_caption       = Winneba is located 55 km west of [[Accra]] and 140 km east of [[Cape Coast]]
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|pushpin_map_caption    =Location of Winneba in [[Central Region, Ghana|Central region]], South Ghana
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|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = [[Ghana]]
|subdivision_type1    = Region
|subdivision_name1   = [[Central Region, Ghana|Central Region]]
|subdivision_type2      = District
|subdivision_name2      = [[Effutu Municipal District]]
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|population_as_of  = 2013
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|population_total = {{gaps|55|331}}<ref name="World Gazetteer">{{cite web |url=http://bevoelkerungsstatistik.de/wg.php?x=1170623253&men=gcis&lng=de&dat=32&geo=-85&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=x |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155500/http://bevoelkerungsstatistik.de/wg.php?x=1170623253&men=gcis&lng=de&dat=32&geo=-85&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=x |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |title=World Gazetteer online |publisher=World-gazetteer.com }}</ref>
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|coordinates            = {{coord|5|21|00|N|0|37|30|W|region:GH|display=inline,title}}
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'''Winneba''' is a town and the capital of [[Effutu Municipal District]] in [[Central Region, Ghana|Central Region]] of South [[Ghana]]. Winneba has a population of {{gaps|60|331}}.<ref name="World Gazetteer"/> Winneba, traditionally known as ''Simpa'',<ref name="embassy-page">{{cite web | url = http://www.ghanaembassy.or.jp/region/centern.html | title = Central Region	| publisher = Ghana Embassy in Japan | access-date = 28 April 2006}}</ref> is a historic [[fishing port]] in south Ghana, lying on the south coast, {{convert|90|mi|km|order=flip}} east of [[Cape Coast]].<ref name="embassy-page"/><ref>Kwesi Ewusi Brown, [http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?bgsu1124803078 "Social Conflicts in Contemporary Effutu Festivals"], 2005, Masters Thesis for Bowling Green State University, advisor Steven Cornelius, p. 1</ref><ref>Brown, 2005, pp. 2-3</ref> The current member of parliament is [[Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Parliament of Ghana |url=https://www.parliament.gh/mps?mp=28 |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=www.parliament.gh}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=EFUTU MP COMMISSIONS FIVE PROJECTS TO FOSTER DEVELOPMENT – Effutu Municipal Assembly |url=http://effutuma.gov.gh/?p=8332 |access-date=2024-11-12 |language=en-US}}</ref>