Keta
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Keta is a town in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is the capital of the Keta Municipal District.
Keta is the sixty-first most populous settlement in Ghana in terms of population, with a population of 23,207. Parts of the town were devastated by sea erosion between the 1960s and 1980s. Keta is mentioned in Maya Angelou's All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes.