Wenchi Municipal District

The Wenchi Municipal District is one of the twenty-two districts of the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. Its capital is Wenchi.

History

The Tain District was split off from Wenchi on November 12, 2003.

Geography and location

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.

Economy

The majority of the people in the municipality derive their livelihoods mainly from the environment thus the land for farming, animal husbandry and settlements.

Wenchi

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Wenchi is a town and is the capital of Wenchi Municipal of the Brong-Ahafo Region in South Ghana. Wenchi is located at 7.73333 [latitude in decimal degrees], -2.1 [longitude in decimal degrees] at an elevation/altitude of meters. The average elevation of Wenchi is 304 meters. Wenchi is approximately 30 km north of Techiman and about 50 km east of the Ivory Coast border. Wenchi has a population of 39,187 people in 2013.

Transport

Wenchi is connected by road to Techiman and Sunyani and its airport, Sunyani Airport. Wenchi is not serviced by a railway station on the Ghana Railway Corporation, but it has been proposed that a line be extended to Wenchi.

Culture

Wenchi celebrates the annual Apoo in April/May. The climax of the Apoo is the durbar of the king (Omanhene) through Wenchi. In August, the annual yam festival takes place in Wenchi and it marks the end of the first rainy season and harvesting of the yam in the towns of Wenchi and Techiman.

Sports

The inhabitants of Wenchi are sports fanatics; many residents follow several Wenchi-based sports teams. Current second division team is Wenchiman. The team Unity Sporting Club, a sports academy, is located in Wenchi.

Wenchi (Ghana parliament constituency)

Prof. George Yaw Djan-Baffuor is the member of parliament for the constituency. He was elected on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) won a majority of 5,021 votes to become the MP. He had also represented the constituency in the 4th Republic parliament.

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