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Transport and Foreign Trade in Kumasi (Coumassie), brewery, Ashanti region

Kumasi (Kumase in Twi, Coumassie in French, the garden city) is the capital of the Ashanti Region of Ghana (Trade and Business in West Africa)

1. Population of Kumasi: 2 million inhabitants (the second largest city of Ghana)
   1. 2000: 1 million inhabitants
2. Region: Ashanti
3. Neighbourhood of Kumasi: the largest African car marker and spare parts
4. Guinness Brewery
5. Kofi Annan (Nobel Peace Prize, former Secretary-General of the UN) was born in Kumasi in 1938

Transport and Logistics

1. Distance from Kumasi to Accra: 255 kilometres (National Road N6)
2. Access to the Dakar-Lagos Transport Corridor
3. Accra-Takoradi-Kumasi Railway

Distance from Kumasi to the Port of Tema: 275 kilometres

Ghanaian Students (Kumasi) from Kumasi (Ghana)

1. Masters: Business in Africa, Transport and Logistics in Africa
2. Doctorate in African Business

More information: Trade and Business in Ghana, at EENI Global Business School Website.

EENI Principle of Racial Harmony (James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey)

1. Main ethnic group of Kumasi: Ashanti
2. Main Religions in Kumasi:
   1. Christianity (84%)
   2. Islam
   3. African Traditional Religions
3. District: Metropolitan Assembly of Kumasi
4. Neolithic remains in Kumasi
5. Kumasi was the capital of the Ashanti Empire
6. Foundation of Kumasi 1680 (King Osei Tutu, Ashanti)

Ashanti region (Ghana)

1. Area of the Ashanti region: 24,389 km²
2. Population of the Ashanti region: 3.6 million inhabitants
3. Important cocoa production
4. Gold Mines

Higher Education in Kumasi (Ghana)

1. University of Sciences and Technologies Kwame Nkrumah

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