Market centre
The densest streets collect around the historic market area, where roads from surrounding districts come together in a compact core.
Minimalist map poster · Ghana
8.5508° N / 0.5188° W
A historic savanna market town in northern Ghana, its roads radiating outward across open, flat country.





One city, five moods
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The map
Salaga is the capital of the East Gonja area in Ghana's Savannah Region. The land around it is wide and gently rolling, covered in grassland and scattered trees. On the map the town is a compact centre with roads leaving in several directions, a shape that fits a place that for centuries was defined by the routes converging on it.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Salaga was one of the major markets of West Africa, known for the kola nut trade and, painfully, as a centre of the slave trade. Sites connected with that history, including the wells used at the old market, are preserved and visited today. The town's layout still carries the memory of a place built around exchange.
A Salaga map poster holds that history quietly. The lines of the streets and the long roads out into the savanna are shown without decoration, leaving room for the viewer's own knowledge of the place. It is a subject that suits a reflective setting, and the Paper and Sand styles bring out its understated tone.
The densest streets collect around the historic market area, where roads from surrounding districts come together in a compact core.
Several long routes run outward across the savanna, forming a star-like pattern that recalls Salaga's role as a meeting point of trade routes.
Beyond the town the map opens into wide, lightly marked country, with isolated villages and tracks against a largely empty background.
Make it yours
Add a date, a name or a line of your own, switch style, size or orientation.
The free preview is low-resolution with a watermark. Prints and HD files are rendered at 300 DPI, up to 7,200 × 10,800 px, without a watermark.
Why Salaga
Salaga matters to people from the Gonja area, to the Ghanaian diaspora and to anyone who has studied or visited its historic sites. A map of the town is a way to keep that connection present, without spectacle.
Personalise the title, subtitle and coordinates line, and choose Classic black & white, Noir, Paper, Blueprint or Sand. Printed posters on matte paper, with or without a wooden frame, are made and shipped by print partners in more than 30 countries.
Order the Salaga poster| Print size | Resolution | Files |
|---|---|---|
| 30 × 40 cm (11.8 × 15.7″) | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3, 11.7 × 16.5″) | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2, 16.5 × 23.4″) | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm (18 × 24″) | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm (19.7 × 27.6″) | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm (24 × 36″) | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
For comparison, the free preview is 900 px wide, watermarked and meant for screens. The HD files have up to 8× the resolution in each direction and print cleanly at full poster size.
Pick a style at the top of the page, then choose Printed Poster — a size and, if you like, a frame — or Digital HD Files. Checkout takes one step, and your order page updates as soon as the payment goes through.
It is printed on premium 200 gsm matte paper in one of six sizes, from 30 × 40 cm to 24 × 36″. Printed posters start at $39, shipping included.
Yes. Choose a solid wood frame in black, white, natural oak or dark wood. It comes with shatterproof glazing and is ready to hang. Framed posters start at $99, shipping included.
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Send us a photo within 14 days of delivery and we will reprint it for free or refund you.
Yes. In the editor on this page, change the title, the subtitle and the coordinates line to anything you like, and pick a style and size. Printed, framed and digital orders all use exactly your design.
For $9 you get 300 DPI PNG and print-ready PDF files in all six sizes, without a watermark, to print anywhere. Not sure yet? Download a free watermarked preview first.
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