Fomena

Fomena is a small town and the capital of the . The town is the seat of the paramount chief of the Adansi traditional council. The town is known as the place where the Fomena treaty was signed.
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  • Type: Town
  • Description: district Capital in Ashanti Region, Ghana
  • Also known as: Fomana” and “Fommanah

Places of Interest

Highlights include Adansi North District.

Government office
is one of the forty-three districts in , . Originally it was created from parts of two former districts on 17 February 2004: Adansi West District and Adansi East District; thus the remaining parts had been absorbed into parts of Obuasi Municipal District and respectively.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Adansi Asokwa.

Town
is the capital of the District in the of . The district itself was created out of the by Legislative Instrument in 2018. is situated 4 km south of Fomena.

Fomena

Latitude
6.28104° or 6° 16′ 52″ north
Longitude
-1.51245° or 1° 30′ 45″ west
Elevation
260 metres (853 feet)
Open location code
6CRW7FJQ+C2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1814097670
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2300890
Wiki­data ID
Q5464919
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Yoruba—“Fomena” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: 福梅納
  • Dutch: Fomena
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Fomena
  • Hausa: Fomena
  • Irish: Fomena
  • Polish: Fomena
  • Russian: Фомена
  • Swedish: Fomena
  • Turkish: Fomena
  • Yoruba: Fomena

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Adansi Asokwa District Assembly and Dompoase Post Office.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fomena”. Photo: Erik Cleves Kristensen, CC BY 2.0.