Central Region (Ghana)

The Central Region (German central region ) is a region of Ghana with capital Cape Coast.

Geography

The region lies in the south and is bordered to the northwest by the Ashanti Region, on the northeast by the Eastern Region, to the south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by the Western Region and on the east by the Greater Accra Region.

Population

The region has a predominantly Fante, whose language is one of nine state-funded literary languages ​​of Ghana, in the northern part of living members of other Akanvölker. To Winneba, the second largest city in the region around Awutu (also called " Efutu " called ) is spoken. Fanti but also used by them as a second language. About a third of the population lives in urban centers.

History

The region is that region of Ghana, which has come as the first and most intensively with Europeans in contact. The Portuguese fort Elmina was in 1482 the first permanent European base at all in sub-Saharan Africa. Several other forts that were built by various European powers, to find himself strung with sometimes only a few kilometers distance along the coast. The Fante have for centuries intensive trade and cultural exchange with the Europeans and operated in the 18th and 19th centuries against the enemy with them (because competing) Ashanti closely allied with the British. The region coincides spatially largely with the so-called Fantiföderation, which represented from 1868 to 1873 probably the first serious attempt at an anti-colonial " self- government" in West Africa. The region was the nucleus of the British colony of the Gold Coast and housed in the wake of this intense contacts with the independence of Ghana, the best trained and most literate population in West Africa.

Economy

The region has an exceptionally well-developed road network and is used by the railway Accra - crisscrossed Takoradi widthwise. Here a disproportionately high share of the Ghanaian gross national product is produced. The tourism is due to the attractive beaches and historical attractions of growing importance.

In Cape Coast we find one of the great universities of the country.

Political Structure

The region is divided into 13 districts:

• Abura / Asebu / Kwamankese District
• Agona District
• Ajumako / Enyan / Essiam District
• Asikuma / Odoben / Brakwa District
• Assin North District
• Assin South District
• Awutu / Effutu / Senya District
• Cape Coast Municipal District
• Gomoa District
• Komenda / Edina / Eguafo / Abirem District
• Mfantsiman District
• Twifo / Heman / Lower Denkyira District
• Upper Denkyira District