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Kumasi

Ghana

Watercolour of Kumasi, Ghana. The historic "Garden City of West Africa" and royal capital of the Ashanti Empire, centered around Manhyia Palace and the UNESCO Asante Traditional Buildings, with Manhyia Palace and UNESCO World Heritage Asante Traditional Buildings.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
Manhyia Palace; UNESCO World Heritage Asante Traditional Buildings; Komfo Anokye Sword Site; Garden City of West Africa; Ashanti; lush tropical West African rainforest flora; Asante Empire
Viewpoint
Favor the classic viewpoint looking across the manicured lawns toward the verandas of Manhyia Palace or into the serene courtyard of an Asante shrine, showing oil palm fronds and red-clay paths in the foreground, the historic royal architecture and shaded verandas in the middle-ground, and the rolling forested hills of Kumasi fading in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the thick rainforest canopies covering Kumasi's hills, royal palace lawns, and sacred grove trees.
Guarded against
Not Accra, Tamale, or Cape Coast
Population2,544,530Wikidata: 3,903,480
Coordinates6.69°N, 1.62°W
Elevation300 m
Area254 km²
Time zoneAfrica/AccraUTC+0
Solar noon12:06clock runs 0.1 h ahead of the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Kumasi and you surface nearest to Asau Village, Tuvalu — 95 km from the exact antipodal point.

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AbidjanCI302 km
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LagosNG554 km
IbadanNG615 km

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