Techiman

Techiman Takyiman (Akan)
City
Techiman Location of Techiman in Bono East Region, Ghana
Coordinates: 7°35′00″N 1°56′10″W / 7.58333°N 1.93611°W / 7.58333; -1.93611
Country	Ghana
Region	Bono East Region
District	Techiman Metropolitan District
Founded	1740
Government [1]
• Type	Mayor–council
• Metropolitan Mayor	Benjamin Yaw Gyarko
Population  (2010)[2]
• Total	67,241
• Ethnicities	Akan Bono Gonja Dagomba Sisala Mamprusi
• Religion	Christianity Islam traditional African religions
Time zone	GMT
• Summer (DST)	GMT
Postal codes	BT
Area code	035 25
Climate	Aw
Website	tecma.gov.gh

Techiman (Akan: Takyiman) is a city and the capital of the Techiman Metropolitan District and the Bono East Region of Ghana. The city is located about 32 miles (51 km) from Sunyani and about 65 miles (105 km) away from Kumasi. It has a tropical savanna climate, experiencing two wet seasons and a dry season. Techiman has a population of 67,241 as of the 2010 census released by the Ghana Statistical Service. The majority of ethnic groups in the city included the Akan, Bono, Gonja, Dagomba, Sisala, and Mamprusi people. The mayor of the city's metropolitan, as of 2021 is Benjamin Yaw Gyarko.

The city was formally founded in 1740 and officially established as the Bono-Tekyiman state in the 1940s, after the Bono state's capital Bono Manso was taken over in 1723. After a referendum in 2018 was passed with the focus of creating new regions in Ghana, Techiman was selected to be the capital of the newly created region of the Bono East Region.

Techiman is the site of an outdoor agricultural market, one of the largest markets in West Africa. The market is also where most of the city's economic activity is situated in. The city hold a unique ethnic heritage, as its the center of the Akan people.^[3] Techiman is also a commercial hub in Ghana, as its the cross point of many different trunk roads from cities such as Sunyani, Kumasi, Wa, and Tamale.