1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Ghana
Compare this sourced profile of Kumasi, Ghana before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Kumasi—2,544,530, Africa/Accra, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital city of Ashanti Region.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kumasi is GeoNames ID 2298890. Its recorded administrative path is Kumasi → Ashanti → Ghana, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Kumasi occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2024-06-22; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Kumasi ranks 151 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Ghana entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 30. Its 2,544,530 population value is 1.13 times the 2,253,897 median for the country cohort and 2.82 times the 902,588 regional median. Kumasi is rank 1 among the 2 selected Ghana entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Kumasi's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kumasi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Accra at 201.906 km with 1,963,264 recorded people; Abobo at 299.9 km with 1,340,083 recorded people; Abidjan at 301.838 km with 6,321,017 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 99.932 km. Compared with Accra, Kumasi's recorded population is 1.30 times as large. Against Kumasi, Accra follows Accra → Greater Accra → Ghana in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Ghana cohort, uses the shared Africa/Accra identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kumasi's. Against Kumasi, Abobo follows Abidjan Autonomous District → Côte d’Ivoire in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Côte d’Ivoire cohort rather than Ghana, uses Africa/Abidjan instead of Africa/Accra, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kumasi's. Against Kumasi, Abidjan follows Abidjan Autonomous District → Côte d’Ivoire in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Côte d’Ivoire cohort rather than Ghana, uses Africa/Abidjan instead of Africa/Accra, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Kumasi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,000 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kumasi's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 2298890, the coordinate pair 6.6885 / 1.6244, country rank 1 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 2306104 at 201.906 km bind Kumasi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kumasi's reference point is 6.6885° north and 1.6244° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Accra is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Kumasi's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kumasi's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kumasi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kumasi, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Kumasi's closest other entries in this atlas are Accra (201.906 km), Abobo (299.9 km), Abidjan (301.838 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-06-22; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.