Fortress
Fort Orange
🇬🇭 Ghana · 17th century
Fort Orange (Dutch: Fort Oranje) is a fort located in Sekondi, Western Region, Ghana. Built by the Dutch in 1642, it was originally established as a trading lodge. The site was enlarged into a full fort in 1690 to support the growing European trade and to provide protection against local conflicts and rival European powers.
It is situated adjacent to the English-built Fort Sekondi, which was constructed in 1682. The fort was transferred to British control in 1872 along with the rest of the Dutch Gold Coast holdings, following the Anglo-Dutch treaty of that year.
Text adapted from “Fort Orange, Ghana” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Orange ranks #2,663 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #19 of the 20 mapped in Ghana. Founded 1690, it is older than 25% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 259 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. See how Ghana compares in the castle statistics.
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