Wenchi Municipal District
| Wenchi Municipal | |
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 Location of Wenchi Municipal in Brong Ahafo |
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 Wenchi Municipal
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| Coordinates: 07°34′38″N 01°55′45″W / 7.57722°N 1.92917°WCoordinates: 07°34′38″N 01°55′45″W / 7.57722°N 1.92917°W | |
| Region | Brong Ahafo |
| Capital | Wenchi |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal Assembly |
| • District Executive | Yaw Osei Agyei |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4,939 km2 (1,907 sq mi) |
| Time zone | Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | GMT (UTC) |
| Website | Official website |
The Wenchi Municipal District is one of the twenty-two districts of the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. Its capital is Wenchi.
The Tain District was split off from Wenchi on November 12, 2003.
The municipality is located in the western part of Brong Ahafo Region of Akaland. It is bounded to the south by Sunyani Municipality and to the north by Kintampo South District. It also shares a common boundary with Tain District to the west and Techiman Municipal District to the west.
The municipality lies within latitudes 7° 30′ South and 7° 15′ North and longitudes 2o 17’ West and 1° 55′ East. The municipality covers 1,296.6 square kilometres (500.6 sq mi). Wenchi Municipal is the largest of the 22 districts in the Brong Ahafo Region. Wenchi town, the municipal capital, is 56 km from Sunyani and 29 km from Techiman. Its closeness to Techiman, a major national market, poses several benefits for agricultural production.
The majority of the people in the municipality derive their livelihoods mainly from the environment thus the land for farming, animal husbandry and settlements.
A good human resource base of the people in Wenchi Municipal depends greatly on their level of education. Education is the most treasured legacy of the district's residents and also the only means through which development can be propelled.
Generally, physical accessibility to basic schools is commendable. This is especially so at the primary level where virtually every community has a Kindergarten (KG) and a primary school. In 2009, there were seventy public primary schools and twenty-two private primary schools in the municipality. Children from communities that do not have primary schools do not walk more than 3 km to access a facility. The number of junior high schools (JHS) however does not equal the number of primary schools in the municipality. In 2010, there were forty public junior high schools and ten private junior high schools. This partly contributed to a high drop-out rate at the JHS level as pupils had to commute over longer distances to access a facility. For instance, JHS pupils from Akete and Nyinamponaase walked a distance of 7 km everyday to attend JHS in Wenchi and Tromeso respectively in 2009.
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