Obuasi
Obuasi is a gold mining town and is the capital of the Obuasi Municipal District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. It lies in the southern part of the Obuasi Municipal and is located about 39 mi from Kumasi.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 175,000 residents
- Description: A city in Ghana, Ashanti Region.
- Also known as: “Oboase” and “Obuase”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Obuasi Municipal Assembly and Len Clay Stadium.
Obuasi Municipal Assembly
Government office
Obuasi Municipal Assembly is one of the forty-three districts in Ashanti Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Adansi West District in 1988, until part of the district was split off to create Obuasi Municipal District on 15 December 2003; whose remaining parts had been absorbed into parts of Adansi North District and Adansi South District respectively.
Len Clay Stadium
Stadium
Len Clay Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Obuasi, Ghana. It was opened on 10 May 1990 and renovated on 17 April 2005 and is home to Ashanti Gold Sporting Club. It has capacity for 20,000 people.
Obuasi
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Obuasi Municipal Assembly, Ashanti Region, Ashanti-Kwahu, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
6.2115° or 6° 12′ 42″ northLongitude
-1.6894° or 1° 41′ 22″ westPopulation
175,000Elevation
215 metres (705 feet)United Nations Location Code
GH OBUOpen location code
6CRW6866+J6OpenStreetMap ID
node 4293849752OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Volapük—“Obuasi” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Obuase”
- Arabic: “أوبواسي”
- Bengali: “ওবোয়াসি”
- Breton: “Obuasi”
- Catalan: “Obuasi”
- Cebuano: “Obuasi”
- Chinese: “奥布阿西”
- Chinese: “奧布瓦西”
- Corsican: “Obuasi”
- Croatian: “Obuasi”
- Czech: “Obuasi”
- Dagbani: “Obuasi”
- Danish: “Obuasi”
- Dutch: “Obuasi”
- Esperanto: “Obuasi”
- Farefare: “Obuasi”
- Finnish: “Obuasi”
- French: “Obuasi”
- German: “Obuasi”
- Greek: “Ομπουάσι”
- Gujarati: “ઓબુસી”
- Hebrew: “אובואסי”
- Hindi: “ओबासी”
- Indonesian: “Obuasi”
- Irish: “Obuasi”
- Italian: “Obuasi”
- Japanese: “オブアシ”
- Kannada: “ಒಬಾಸಿ”
- Korean: “오부아시”
- Kusaal: “Obuasi”
- Latvian: “Obuasi”
- Lithuanian: “Obuasis”
- Low German: “Obuasi”
- Malay: “Obuasi”
- Marathi: “ओबुसी”
- Moksha: “Обуаси”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Obuasi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Obuasi”
- Norwegian: “Obuasi”
- Polish: “Obuasi”
- Portuguese: “Obuasi”
- Romanian: “Obuasi”
- Russian: “Обуаси”
- Sinhala: “ඔබුආසි”
- Slovak: “Obuasi”
- Southern Dagaare: “Obuasi”
- Spanish: “Obuasi”
- Swahili: “Obuasi”
- Swedish: “Obuasi”
- Tahitian: “Obuasi”
- Tamil: “ஒபூச்சி”
- Telugu: “ఒబుఅసి”
- Thai: “โอบัวซี่”
- Turkish: “Obuassi”
- Twi: “Obuasi”
- Ukrainian: “Обуасі”
- Urdu: “اوبواسی”
- Venetian: “Obuasi”
- Vietnamese: “Obuasi”
- Volapük: “Obuasi”
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