Asamankese
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Asamankese is a town in south Ghana and is the capital of West Akim Municipal District, a district in the Eastern Region of south Ghana. Asamankese has a 2013 settlement population of approximately 39,435 people. Asamankese is on the main highway to Kumasi and Accra in the interior. The people of Asamankese celebrate the Obuodwan festival.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 4 mapped points.
Within Vinony's link graph, Asamankese is referenced by 244 other articles, and connects out to Eastern Region, Ghana and capital city.
Vinony files it under Populated places in the Eastern Region (Ghana) and Use Ghanaian English from January 2023.
Its subject is documented across 14 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Locality
- Asamankese
- Region
- Eastern Region
- Country
- Ghana
- Population
- 46,061
- Timezone
- Africa/Accra
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Asamankese
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_blank_emblem
- West Akim Municipal District logo.jpg
- Settlement.blank_emblem_type
- West Akim Municipal District logo
- Settlement.blank_emblem_link
- West Akim Municipal District
- Settlement.blank_emblem_size
- 250px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ghana
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Asamankese in Eastern Region, Ghana
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ghana
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Eastern Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- West Akim Municipal
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2013
- Settlement.population_total
- 39,435
- Settlement.timezone
- GMT
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Ghana
- Located in
- West Akim Municipal District
- Continent
- Africa
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
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Encyclopedic overview
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Asamankese is a town in south Ghana and is the capital of West Akim Municipal District, a district in the Eastern Region of south Ghana. Asamankese has a 2013 settlement population of approximately 39,435 people. Asamankese is on the main highway to Kumasi and Accra in the interior. The people of Asamankese celebrate the Obuodwan festival.
== History == The modern city of Asamankese was founded and occupied by the Akwamu. The Akwamus moved south and eastward from Dormaa around the 14th century to Twifo-Heman, North West Cape Coast. The move was commercially motivated and settled at the Twifo-Heman forest in the later part of the 16th century. Akwamus are Akans, and belonged to the Aduana family who are blood brothers of Asumennya, Dormaa and Kumawu. According to oral tradition, a succession dispute resulted in Otomfuo (brass-smith) Asare leaving to form a new state around a city called Asaremankesee (Asare's big state), now known as Asamankese. The capital of Akwamu later moved to Nyaonase.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Asamankese” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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