Location

The Brong Ahafo Region which now has thirty two (32) administrative and political Districts is located in the Southern part of Ghana.  With its capital as Sunyani, the Brong-Ahafo Region shares Boundaries to the north by the Black Volta and to the east the Volta Lake. It is bounded to the south by the Ashanti, Western and Eastern Regions of Ghana.

Brief History

It was created on 4th April 1959 (by the Brong Ahafo Region Act No. 18 of 1959). The Act defined the area of the Brong Ahafo Region to consist of the northern and the western part of the then Ashanti Region and included the Prang and Yeji areas that before the enactment of the Act formed part of the Northern Region.

Before the Ashanti Empire was conquered by the British in 1900, the Brong and Ahafo states to the north and northwest of Kumasi (the capital of Ashanti empire and the present Ashanti Region) were within the empire.

Nana Akumfi Ameyaw III traces his ancestry to King Akumfi Ameyaw I (1328-63), under whose reign the Brong Kingdom with its capital at Bono Manso grew to become the most powerful kingdom of its time. Indeed oral tradition has it that nearly all the different groups of the Akans, including the Asante, trace their origins to Bono after migrating from the north.

The population of the region according to 2010 Population and Housing Census stands at 2,310,983 with 1,145,271 male and 1,165,712 female.