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4 unusual facts about Brong-Ahafo Region


Berekum Chelsea F.C.

Berekum Chelsea Football Club is a Ghanaian professional football club based in Berekum, Brong-Ahafo, previously known as Bechem Chelsea Football Club.

Brong-Ahafo Region

Major attractions of the Brong-Ahafo Region include Kintampo, with its beautiful waterfalls and nature reserves, and Fiema, home of the Boabeng Monkey Sanctuary.

Ernest Debrah

He has been Minister for Food and Agriculture (Ghana) (February 2005 to January 2009), having previously served as Regional Minister for Brong-Ahafo and then Regional Minister for the Northern Region from February 2001 to January 2004.

NAPE Foundation

NAPE Foundation has also supported secondary students in Nafana Presbyterian Senior High School in Sampa, in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana as well as the Ghana Senior High School Tamale in the Northern Region of Ghana.


Akan calendar

The Asante sent messengers to Brong (i.e., Techiman) when in doubt about when to hold any festival, for the Brong were 'keepers of the King's calendar.'

Akropong–Akuapem

This group includes the Akuapem, the Akyem, the Ashanti, the Baoulé, the Brong/Abron, the Fante and the Nzema peoples covering the Brong Ahafo, Ashanti, Western, Central, and Eastern Regions, as well as portions of the midsection of the Volta Region, and into North Ghana.

Department of Optometry, KNUST

In November 2010 the whole sixth year class of the Department undertook a two-day intensive vision outreach program in the Atebubu district of the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana.

Eric Amoateng

Amoateng renounced his chieftaincy in 2004 in order to stand in the December 2004 parliamentary elections on the ticket of the NPP, adopting Bomini in the neighbouring Nkoranza North constituency in the Nkoranza District of the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana, as his home town.

Kintampo

Kintampo District, a former district in the Brong Ahafo Region that was split into two parts in 2003

Kwadjokrom

Kwadjokrom is a small town and is the capital of Sene District in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Eastern Region in south Ghana.

Nsawkaw

Nsawkaw is a small town and is the capital of Tain district of the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana.

Odumase, Ghana

Odumase (or Odumase Sunyani West) is a small town and is the capital of Sunyani West district of the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana.

Vehicle registration plates of Ghana

There are ten Regions in Ghana: Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, Central, Eastern, Greater Accra, Northern, Upper East, Upper West, Volta and Western.

On the vehicle registration plates, one will see the first letter from the name of the region and the letter 'R' which denotes Region; however, four of Ghana's ten Regions: Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, Upper East and Upper West do not take the format whereby the letter 'R' and the first letter from the name of the Region are used - AS, BA, UE and UW are used for Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, Upper East and the Upper West Regions respectively.


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