Kumasi Metropolitan District

Kumasi Metropolitan District
country	Ghana
region	Ashanti region
Capital	Kumasi
District shape	metropolitan
District Chief Executive	Patricia Appiaegyei
surface	299 km²
population	1,171,311 (2004)
Population density	3917 Ew. / km²
ISO 3166-2	GH-AH-KM

The Kumasi Metropolitan District is one of 138 districts in Ghana . Because of its urban structure, it is one of the few districts with the designation metropolitan . It is located in the center of the country in the Ashanti region and is one of only two metropolitan districts out of a total of 21 regional districts.

The Kumasi Metropolitan District borders the Atwima Nwabiagya , Ejisu-Juaben , Botsomtwe / Atwima / Kwanhuma and Kwabre districts . The Chief Executive of the 299 km² district with around 1,171,311 inhabitants is Patricia Appiaegyei , based in the district capital Kumasi .

politics

The Kumasi Metropolitan District is the only district in the Ashanti Region where a woman - Patricia Appiaegyei - holds the highest office of Chief Executive.

economy

Due to the urban structure of the district, agriculture plays a subordinate role in the district. Only in the border areas to the neighboring districts is agriculture practiced for the demand for fresh produce for Kumasi and its suburbs.

Industry contributes 30 percent to the district's gross domestic product. Companies for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products, breweries and textile companies are located here.

Small manufacturing companies produce footwear, cosmetics, soaps, furniture, toys and metal products. 50 percent of the available workforce is employed in the wood processing industry.

The district does not have its own raw material mining areas. Building materials and other raw materials for industries are supplied from the surrounding districts.

The service sector generates 60 percent of the gross domestic product. The central market in Kumasi is the largest single market in the whole country. In Kumasi alone, 20 markets are open to the public every day.

Constituencies

The Kumasi Metropolitan District is divided into eleven constituencies, 10 of which went to members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and one to the National Democratic Congress (NDC):

Isaac Kwame Asiamah (NPP) for the constituency of Atwima-Mponua
Kwame Addo Kufuor (NPP) for the constituency of Manhyia
Richard Winfred Anane (NPP) for the Nhyiaeso constituency; Acting Minister for Road Transport in the cabinet of John Agyekum Kufuor
Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak (NDC) for the Asawase constituency
Cecilia Abena Dapaah (NPP) for the constituency of Bantama
Anthony Akoto Osei (NPP) for the Old Tafo constituency
Elizabeth Agyeman (NPP) for the Oforikrom constituency
Josephine Hilda Addoh (NPP) for the constituency of Kwadaso
Maxwell Kofi Jumah (NPP) for the Asokwa constituency
Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu (NPP) for the constituency of Suame
Sampson Kwaku Boafo (NPP) for Subin constituency; Minister of State for Culture and Chiefs Affairs in the cabinet of John Agyekum Kufuor

Important localities


Kumasi Ashanti Newtown New Tafo Asawasi Atonsu agogo Breman Amakom	Oforikrom Pankrono Subscription Ayigya Ahinsan Kwadaso Nsuom Buokrom	Dichemso Tarkwa Maaro Asokwa Asafo New Suame

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