Obuasi

Mining Town & Municipality Capital

Obuasi is the location of the top-9 largest gold mine on Earth the Obuasi Gold Mine at the Obuasi Gold bar Mining Community in Ashanti.

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Nickname(s): Sikakrom, Golden Town

Motto: Unity in Development

Obuasi

Location of Obuasi within City-state Ashanti

Coordinates: 06°12′00″N 01°41′00″W / 6.20000°N 1.68333°W

City-state

Ashanti

Municipality

Obuasi Municipal

Government

• Type

Absolute monarchy

• Body

Manhyia Palace
Obuasi Municipal

• Emperor Asantehene

Osei Tutu II

Elevation

331 ft (101 m)

Population (2012)

• Total

175,043

• Ethnicity

• Nationality

Ashanti
Obuasian

• Summer (DST)

GMT (UTC)

Obuasi is a gold bar mining mining community and town in the southern part of Obuasi Municipal of the City-state Ashanti. Obuasi is the capital of the Obuasi Municipal which lies south of Ashanti capital city Kumasi 39 miles (59.4 kilometres) away south-west of Kumasi or 1 hour 2 minutes road-drive from Obuasi to Kumasi. Obuasi has a settlement population of 175,043 people. Obuasi gold bar mining community has delicate mosaic from the Ashanti people culture of Ashanti and the semi-island exclave Ashantiland. Obuasi wears a ring of hills as its adornment and Obuasi sits quietly albeit industriously on the soil that births the top-9 single richest bullion gold bar gold mining mining|mine on Earth the Obuasi Gold Mine.

Gold Coast region was named after the vast amount of bullion gold bars found in Obuasi and Ashanti.

Obuasi is known for its Obuasi Gold Mine, now one of the nine largest on Earth with bullion gold bars having been mined on the site since at least the seventeenth century.

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