Old Tafo Municipal District
Old Tafo Municipal District is one of the forty-three districts in Ashanti Region, Ghana.
Old Tafo Municipal District is one of the forty-three districts in Ashanti Region, Ghana. Originally it was a sub-metropolitan district council within the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly until 15 March 2018, when it was elevated to municipal district assembly status to become Old Tafo Municipal District. The municipality is located in the central part of Ashanti Region and has Tafo as its capital town.
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Worth seeing in and around Old Tafo Municipal District
4 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.
- 01Manhyia 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.
3.7 km · The official Palace of the Asantehene in Ghana · Wikipedia - 02Manhiya 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.
3.3 km · historical museum at Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana · Wikipedia - 03St. Louis College of Education
Introduction St. Louis College of Education is a teacher education college in Kumasi.
3.7 km · Teachers Training College · Wikipedia - 04Wesley 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.
3.1 km · teacher education college in Kumasi, Ghana · Wikipedia
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Getting to Old Tafo Municipal District
- Airports
- Prempeh I (KMS), 3 km · Kotoka (ACC), 203 km
- Stations
- Kumasi Airport, 3 km
- Accra → Old Tafo Municipal District204 km · quickest by road, 4h 11m · GH₵135–180
- Tamale → Old Tafo Municipal District308 km · quickest by road, 5h 39m · GH₵200–270
- Abidjan → Old Tafo Municipal District307 km · quickest by air, 6h 59m · $210–320
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Old Tafo Municipal 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 Old Tafo Municipal District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThey are usually very crowded and dilapidated minivans and minibuses that act as the city's public transit system.
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Next door to Old Tafo Municipal District
Old Tafo Municipal District is 6 km from Kumasi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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