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Kumasi. Tipo: ciudad con 1,520,000 habitantes. Descripción: Capital del Imperio Asante y Capital de la región de Ashanti, Ghana. Categorías: gran ciudad, área metropolitana, asentamiento y localidad. Localización: Kumasi, Región de Ashanti, Ashanti-Kwahu, Ghana, África Occidental, África. Ver en OpenStreetMap.
Kumasi is the main city of Ashanti-Kwahu region of Ghana. It is a vibrant city and the cultural cradle of Ghana. Kumasi is famous for its vast Kejetia market, the largest in West Africa, and for the traditional Asante buildings of the region, which are on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
Kumasi is located in a rain forest region near Lake Bosomtwe, and is the commercial, industrial, and cultural capital of the historical Ashanti Empire. Kumasi is approximately 500 kilometres (300 mi) north of the Equator and 200 kilometres (100 mi) north of the Gulf of Guinea.
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Kumasi, city, south-central Ghana. Carved out of a dense forest belt among hills rising to 1,000 feet (300 metres), Kumasi has a humid, wet climate. Osei Tutu, a 17th-century Asante king, chose the site for his capital and conducted land negotiations under a kum tree, whence came the town’s name.
Kumasi's maps indicate the location of major roads; public educational institutions (from pre-primary through university, medical school and polytechnic); health facilities; and surface water sources, intake points and water pipelines.
