Kumasi

Kumasi is the main city of the region of . 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.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Lake Bosomtwi.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Baba Yara Stadium and Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly.
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Stadium
Baba Yara Sports Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kumasi, .
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Government office
is one of the 261…
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Castle
The is the seat of the Asantehene, as well as his official residence.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tafo and Kwadaso.
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Kumasi

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Latitude
6.6986° or 6° 41′ 55″ north
Longitude
-1.6233° or 1° 37′ 24″ west
UN/LOCODE
GH KAI and GH KMS
Open location code
6CRWM9XG+CM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 261702404
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2298890
Wiki­data ID
Q182059

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Kumasi” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kumasi”
  • Akan: “Kumase”
  • Arabic: “كوماسى”
  • Arabic: “كوماسي”
  • Armenian: “Կումասի”
  • Asturian: “Kumasi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kumasi”
  • Basque: “Kumasi”
  • Belarusian: “Кумасі”
  • Bengali: “কোমাসি”
  • Breton: “Kumasi”
  • Bulgarian: “Кумаси”
  • Catalan: “Kumasi”
  • Cebuano: “Kumasi (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Kumasi”
  • Central Kanuri: “Kumasi”
  • Chinese: “库马西”
  • Chinese: “庫馬西”
  • Croatian: “Coomassie”
  • Croatian: “Kumase”
  • Croatian: “Kumasi”
  • Czech: “Kumasi”
  • Dagbani: “Kumahi”
  • Dagbani: “Kumashi”
  • Dagbani: “Kumasi”
  • Danish: “Kumasi”
  • Dutch: “Kumasi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوماسى”
  • Esperanto: “Kumasi”
  • Esperanto: “Kumaso”
  • Estonian: “Kumasi”
  • Farefare: “Kumaasi”
  • Finnish: “Kumasi”
  • French: “Kumasi”
  • Fulah: “Kumasi”
  • Ga: “Kumasi”
  • Galician: “Kumasi”
  • Georgian: “კუმასი”
  • German: “Kumasi”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Comassie”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Coomassie”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kumase”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kumasi”
  • Greek: “Κουμάσι”
  • Guarani: “Kumasi”
  • Gujarati: “કુમાસી”
  • Hausa: “Comassie”
  • Hausa: “Coomassie”
  • Hausa: “Kumase”
  • Hausa: “Kumasi”
  • Hebrew: “קומאסי”
  • Hindi: “कुमासी”
  • Hungarian: “Kumasi”
  • Ido: “Kumasi”
  • Indonesian: “Kumasi”
  • Irish: “Kumasi”
  • Italian: “Kumasi”
  • Japanese: “クマシ”
  • Kannada: “ಕುಮಾಸಿ”
  • Karekare: “Kumasi”
  • Kikuyu: “Kumasi”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kumasi”
  • Kirghiz: “Кумаси шаары, Гана”
  • Kirghiz: “Кумаси шаары”
  • Korean: “쿠마시”
  • Kusaal: “Kumasi”
  • Latvian: “Kumasi”
  • Lithuanian: “Coomassie”
  • Lithuanian: “Kumasi”
  • Lithuanian: “Kumasis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kumasi”
  • Macedonian: “Кумаси”
  • Malay: “Kumasi”
  • Marathi: “कुमासी”
  • Mingrelian: “კუმასი”
  • Moksha: “Кумаси”
  • Mongolian: “Кумаси”
  • Mossi: “Kumasi”
  • N'Ko: “ߞߎ߬ߡߊ߬ߛߌ߫”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kumasi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kumasi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kumasi”
  • Norwegian: “Kumasi”
  • Ossetian: “Кумаси”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੁਮਾਸੀ”
  • Persian: “کوماسی”
  • Persian: “گوماسی”
  • Polish: “Kumasi”
  • Portuguese: “Kumasi”
  • Romanian: “Koforidua”
  • Romanian: “Kumasi”
  • Russian: “Кумаси”
  • Scots: “Kumasi”
  • Serbian: “Kumasi”
  • Serbian: “Кумаси”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kumasi”
  • Silesian: “Kumasi”
  • Sinhala: “කුමසි”
  • Slovak: “Kumasi”
  • Slovenian: “Kumasi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوماسی”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Kumasi”
  • Spanish: “Kumasi”
  • Swahili: “Kumasi”
  • Swedish: “Kumasi”
  • Tajik: “Кумаси”
  • Tajik: “Кумосӣ”
  • Tamil: “குமாசி”
  • Telugu: “కుమాసీ”
  • Thai: “คุมาชิ”
  • Thai: “คูมาซี”
  • Turkish: “Kumasi”
  • Twi: “Kumase”
  • Twi: “Kumasi”
  • Tyap: “Kumasi”
  • Ukrainian: “Кумасі”
  • Urdu: “کوماسی”
  • Uzbek: “Kumasi”
  • Venetian: “Kumasi”
  • Veps: “Kumasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Kumasi”
  • Volapük: “Kumasi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kumasi”
  • Welsh: “Kumasi”
  • Western Armenian: “Գումասի”
  • Western Frisian: “Kumasi”
  • Western Frisian: “Kumasy”
  • Wu Chinese: “库马西”
  • Yoruba: “Kumasi”

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