Techiman
Sign in to saveTechiman (Akan: Takyiman) is a city and the capital of the Techiman Metropolitan District and the Bono East Region of Ghana. The city is located about from Sunyani and about away from Kumasi. It has a tropical savanna climate, experiencing two wet seasons and a dry season. Techiman has a population of 67,241 as of the 2010 census released by the Ghana Statistical Service. The majority of ethnic groups in the city included the Akan, Bono, Gonja, Dagomba, Sisala, and Mamprusi people. The mayor of the city's metropolitan, as of 2021, is Benjamin Yaw Gyarko.
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Key facts
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- Techiman
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
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- Ghana
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- bottom
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- Location of Techiman in Bono East Region, Ghana
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- Country
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- Region
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- Bono East Region
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- District
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- Techiman Metropolitan District
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- Founded
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- 1740
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Ghana
- Located in
- Techiman Municipal Assembly
- Continent
- Africa
- Population
- +67241
- Elevation
- +303
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Capital of
- Bono East Region
- Image
- Techiman Senior High School.jpg
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Article
26 sectionsContents
- History
- Bono-Tekyiman
- Present
- Geography
- Metropolitan area
- Climate
- Government
- Demography
- Cityscape
- Economy
- Agriculture
- Trade
- Non-governmental organizations
- Culture
- Sports
- Education
- Healthcare
- Transport
- International relations
- Sister cities – twin towns
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- Work cited
- Further reading
- External links
Techiman (Akan: Takyiman) is a city and the capital of the Techiman Metropolitan District and the Bono East Region of Ghana. The city is located about from Sunyani and about away from Kumasi. It has a tropical savanna climate, experiencing two wet seasons and a dry season. Techiman has a population of 67,241 as of the 2010 census released by the Ghana Statistical Service. The majority of ethnic groups in the city included the Akan, Bono, Gonja, Dagomba, Sisala, and Mamprusi people. The mayor of the city's metropolitan, as of 2021, is Benjamin Yaw Gyarko.
The city was formally founded in 1740 and officially established as the Bono-Tekyiman state in the 1940s, after the Bono state's capital Bono Manso was taken over in 1723. After a referendum in 2018 was passed with the focus of creating new regions in Ghana, Techiman was selected to be the capital of the newly-created region of the Bono East Region.