Place:Obuasi, Ashanti, Ghana

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NameObuasi
TypeCity
Coordinates6.25°N 1.6°W
Located inAshanti, Ghana
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Obuasi is a Mining Community and town in the southern part of Obuasi Municipal of the Ashanti Region of Ghana.[1] Obuasi is the capital of the Obuasi Municipal which lies south of Ashanti capital city Kumasi 39 miles (59.4 kilometres) away south-west of Kumasi or 1 hour 2 minutes road-drive from Obuasi to Kumasi.[1] Obuasi has a settlement population of 175,043 people.[2] Obuasi gold bar mining community has delicate mosaic from the Ashanti people culture of Ashanti and the semi-island exclave Ashantiland.[1] Obuasi wears a ring of hills as its adornment and Obuasi sits quietly albeit industriously on the soil that births the top-9 single richest bullion gold bar gold mining mining|mine on Earth the Obuasi Gold Mine.[1]

Gold Coast region was named after the large amount of gold mined historically at Obuasi and the broader Ashanti Region.

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