Mampong

Mampong is a town and the capital of the Mampong Municipal District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, about 60 kilometres from Kumasi, with a population of 42,037 in 2012. It is home to the Mamponghene, Nana Osei Bonsu II. Agona-Akrofoso, often regarded as Old Mampong, was the capital of the Mampong state, one of four Akan states under Denkyira, and after the formation of the Ashanti Kingdom the capital moved to Botaase, later known as Mampong. About 60 percent of the labour force works in agriculture, with carrots and groundnuts among the major crops. The town is the centre of the Anglican Diocese of Asante Mampong, inaugurated in 2014, and the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Konongo-Mampong, created on 3 March 1995. The climate is tropical savanna.