Aboso
Sign in to saveAboso 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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- human settlement
- Country
- Ghana
- Located in
- Prestea-Huni Valley Municipal District
- 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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