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Aboso is a town near Tarkwa, and is the capital of Wassa West district, a district in the Western Region of Ghana. Aboso is the 78th most populous settlement in Ghana, with a population of 9,945 people. At the Ghana census of 18 March 1984, there were 4,700 inhabitants living in the town.

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Locality
Aboso
Region
Western Region
Country
Ghana
Population
8,790
Timezone
Africa/Accra

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Instance of
human settlement
Country
Ghana
Continent
Africa
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Aboso is a town near Tarkwa, and is the capital of Wassa West district, a district in the Western Region of Ghana. Aboso is the 78th most populous settlement in Ghana, with a population of 9,945 people. At the Ghana census of 18 March 1984, there were 4,700 inhabitants living in the town.

The town has been in an important center in the goldfields in the Tarkwa hills since the late 19th century. The town is the namesake for Aboso Goldfield Ltd, a subsidiary of Gold Fields which operates the nearby Damang mine.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aboso” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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