Bono East Region

The Bono East Region is an administrative region of Ghana, carved out of the former Brong Ahafo Region, with Techiman as its capital. It was created after a referendum held on 27 December 2018, in which 99.50 per cent of the votes cast, from 450,812 voters, were in favour, as one of six new regions created from Ghana's existing ten under a plan of the Ministry of Regional Reorganization and Development. The region borders the Savannah Region to the north, the Bono Region to the west, the Ashanti Region to the south and Volta Lake to the east. Yams, beans, maize, cassava, cocoyam, rice and plantains are grown in its woodland savanna, and fishing takes place on its side of Lake Volta. Bono Manso, on the Techiman-Kintampo road, was a point where captives from the north were sorted during the slave trade and is visited today by descendants.