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Obuasi
Mining Town & Municipality Capital
Obuasi is the location of one of the largest know gold deposits on Earth: the Obuasi Gold Mine at the Obuasi Gold bar Mining community in the Ashanti.[1]
Obuasi is the location of one of the largest know gold deposits on Earth: the Obuasi Gold Mine at the Obuasi Gold bar Mining community in the Ashanti.[1]
Official seal of Obuasi
Nickname(s): 
Sikakrom, Gold Town
Motto: 
Unity in Development
Obuasi is located in Ashanti
Obuasi
Obuasi
Location of Obuasi within City-state Ashanti
Coordinates: 06°12′00″N 01°41′00″W / 6.20000°N 1.68333°W / 6.20000; -1.68333
City-stateObuasi Ashanti
MunicipalityObuasi Municipal
Government
 • TypeAbsolute monarchy
 • BodyManhyia Palace
Obuasi Municipal
 • Emperor AsanteheneOsei Tutu II
Elevation
331 ft (101 m)
Population
 (2012)
 • Total175,043[2]
 • Ethnicity
Ashanti people
 • Nationality
Ashanti
Demonym(s)Ashanti
Obuasian
Time zoneGreenwich Mean Time
 • Summer (DST)GMT

Obuasi is a gold mining community[3] and town which is the capital of the Obuasi Municipal District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.[4] It lies in the southern part of the Obuasi Municipal, 39 miles (63 kilometres) south-west of Ashanti capital city Kumasi.[4] Obuasi has a population of 175,043 people.[2] Obuasi mining community has a mixture of the Ashanti people culture and the semi-island exclave Ashantiland.[4]

Obuasi is home to the Obuasi Gold Mine, one of the largest known gold deposits on Earth.[1][4] The Gold Coast region was named after the large amount of gold mined historically at Obuasi and the broader Ashanti Region.[4]

  1. ^ a b "World's top 10 gold deposits". 7 August 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  2. ^ a b "World Gazetteer online". World-gazetteer.com. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007.
  3. ^ Agyeman, Adwoa (22 January 2019). "Akufo-Addo reopens Obuasi gold mine". Adomonline.com. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d e "An Economic History of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation" (PDF) (PDF). Retrieved 5 August 2015.

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