Coastal town in south-eastern Ghana, built on the sandspit between the Atlantic and the Keta Lagoon near the mouth of the Volta, within the historic Anlo state. Ladzekpo explains the name as 'the head of the sand'. Britannica records that it was a trading port, that a Danish fort was built there in 1784 and sold to the British in 1850, and that it served as an open roadstead port until Tema harbour opened in 1962. Much of the town has since been lost to coastal erosion.
Keta lies on the narrow sand bar between the sea and the Keta Lagoon.