Mampong

Mampong is a town in the Mampong Municipal of Ashanti and serves as the administrative capital of Mampong Municipal. Mampong has a population of 42,037 people. Mampong is also the centre of the new Anglican Diocese of Asante Mampong, inaugurated in 2014.

Education
COLLEGES


 * College of Agriculture Education (University of Education Mampong Campus)
 * Nursing And Midwifery Training College, Mampong-Ashanti
 * Mampong Technical College of Education (Mamtech)
 * St. Monica's College of Education

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS


 * Amaniampong Senior High School (Formerly AMASS).
 * St. Monica's Senior High School
 * St. Joseph Seminary Senior High School, Mampong Ashanti (Formerly Sekyereman Secondary School)
 * Kofiase Adventist Senior High Technical
 * Oduko Boatemaa Senior High School

Namesakes
There are several settlements in the Ashanti Region with this name.

Notable residents

 * Akwasi Amankwa Afrifa (1936–1979), former Head of State (Ghana), soldier and politician
 * Akwasi Ampofo Adjei, founder and leader of Kumapim Royals Band, a renowned highlife musician
 * Nimo Johnson
 * Papa Shee, musician
 * J. H. Kwabena Nketia (1921–2019), ethnomusicologist and composer
 * Ebenezer Augustus Kwasi Akuoko (b. 1928), lawyer
 * Gerald Asamoah (b. 1978), retired footballer who played for the German national team and FC Schalke 04
 * Benjamin Samuel Kofi Kwakye, former Inspector General of Police of the Ghana Police Service
 * Agyeman Badu Akosa (1953 to date), Ghanaian educator, politician, pathologist
 * Reginald Reynolds Amponsah (b. 1919), potter, politician, former Minister of State
 * J.C. Akosa, (District Commissioner, 1st Republic), educator, businessman, philanthropist.

Villages
• Mprim

• Bosofour

• Daaho

• Adweho

• Copa

• Asikafor Amantem

• Tunsuom

• Zongo

• Akyeremade

• Ademra

• Lowcost

• Old Daamang

• New Daamang

• Nwaase

• Penteng

• Krobo

• Dadease

• Nwaadan

• Asaam

• Naama

• Nyinampong

• Brofoyeduru

• Benim

• Kofiase

• Hwidiem

• Kyeremfaso

• Bobin

• Nkwanta

• Brengo

• Timber-Nkwanta

• Aboatem

• Bosomkyekye

• Woraso

• Sekuruwa

• Adidwan

• Nintin

• Besease

• Hiamankyene

• Genyakura

• Owuobong

• Nwaadan

Note
The centre for Plant Medicine is not in Mampong Ashanti but in Akuapim Mampong in the Eastern Region. Ashante Mampong however serves as an educational hub in the Ashanti Region with institutions such as University of Winneba College of Agriculture, Mampong Technical College of Education, St Monica's College of Education, Mampong Nursing and Midwifery Training College, 3 senior high schools and numerous junior high and elementary schools.