Ashanti-Kwahu
Ashanti Region
Kwabre District

Ahwiaa

Ahwiaa is a town in the Kwabre East District of the region noted for its wood carvings, arts and crafts…
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  • Type: Suburb with 32,200 residents
  • Description: wood carving village in Ghana
  • Also known as: “Abwia”, “Ebwia”, “Ehwia”, and “Ehwiaa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Old Tafo Municipal District.

Government office
is one of the forty-three districts in , . Originally it was a sub-metropolitan district council within the until 15 March 2018, when it was elevated to municipal district assembly status to become .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tafo and Mamponteng.

Suburb
is a town in in the of near the regional capital . is the thirtieth most populous settlement in Ghana, in terms of population, with a population of 60,919 people.

Town
is the capital of Kwabre East Municipal in the of . is situated 4½ km northeast of Ahwiaa.

Ahwiaa

Latitude
6.7599° or 6° 45′ 36″ north
Longitude
-1.5959° or 1° 35′ 45″ west
Population
32,200
Elevation
309 metres (1,014 feet)
Open location code
6CRWQC53+XJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11607715917
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2301245
Wiki­data ID
Q19975598
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In Other Languages

From Irish to Spanish—“Ahwiaa” goes by many names.
  • Irish: “Ahwiaa”
  • Polish: “Ahwiaa”
  • Spanish: “Ahwiaa”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Ahwiaa”. Photo: ZSM, CC BY 3.0.