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District in Ashanti, Ghana

Afigya Kwabre South District

Afigya Kwabre South District is one of the forty-three districts in Ashanti Region, Ghana.

The place

Afigya Kwabre South District is one of the forty-three districts in Ashanti Region, Ghana. The area was formerly part of the larger Afigya Kwabre District, until the northern part of the district was split off to create Afigya Kwabre North District on 15 March 2018; thus the remaining part has been renamed as Afigya Kwabre South District. The district assembly is located in the northern part of Ashanti Region and has Kodie as its capital town.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Afigya Kwabre South District

7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Manhyia Palace

    The Manhyia Palace is the seat of the Asantehene, as well as his official residence. It is located in Manhyia, Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

    3.3 km · The official Palace of the Asantehene in Ghana · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kejetia Market

    The Kumasi Central Market, also known as, is an open-air marketplace in Kumasi, a city in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The market has over 8,000 stores and stalls, making it the largest single market in West Africa.

    3.9 km · Ghanian open-air market · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Manhiya Palace Museum

    The Manhyia Palace Museum is a historical museum located in Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana and situated within the Manhyia Palace. It was first established in 1925 as a private residence for Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I, and was built as compensation for the destruction of the palace at Adum during the Yaa Asentewaa war in 1900.

    3 km · historical museum at Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Prempeh Jubilee Museum

    The Prempeh II Jubilee Museum is a museum located in Kumasi, Ghana. It was established in 1954.

    3.8 km · museum in Kumasi, Ashanti Region of Ghana · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kumasi Zoo

    The Kumasi Zoo is a zoo located in the heart of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The zoo occupies a 1.5-square-kilometre area between the Kejetia Bus Terminal, the old race course and the Kumasi Centre for National Culture.

    3.7 km · zoological garden in Kumasi, Ghana · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St. Louis College of Education

    Introduction St. Louis College of Education is a teacher education college in Kumasi.

    3.1 km · Teachers Training College · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Wesley College of Education

    Wesley College of Education is a teacher education college in Kumasi, Ashanti Region in Ghana. It was initially established for the training of teachers, catechists and ministers.

    2.4 km · teacher education college in Kumasi, Ghana · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Afigya Kwabre South District

Airports
Prempeh I (KMS), 4 km · Kotoka (ACC), 204 km
Stations
Kumasi Airport, 3.5 km
  • Accra → Afigya Kwabre South District
    212 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · GH₵145–195
  • Tamale → Afigya Kwabre South District
    297 km · quickest by road, 5h 26m · GH₵195–260
  • Abidjan → Afigya Kwabre South District
    312 km · quickest by air, 7h 23m · $290–440
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Afigya Kwabre South District

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Afigya Kwabre South District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThey are usually very crowded and dilapidated minivans and minibuses that act as the city's public transit system.

From Wikivoyage: Ahwiaa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    PríncipeST

    7 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,152 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,721 km
  3. 03
    Santo AntãoCV

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,804 km
  4. 04
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,184 km
  5. 05
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    3,583 km

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Around it

Next door to Afigya Kwabre South District

Afigya Kwabre South District is 5 km from Kumasi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.