Agogo, Ghana

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Agogo
Agogo (Ghana )
Agogo
Agogo
Coordinates: 6°47′60″N 1°4′60″W / 6.8, -1.08333
Country Ghana
Region Ashanti
District Asante Akim North
Elevation [1] 396 m (1,299 ft)
Population (2000)
 - Total 28,271
Time zone GMT (UTC)

Agogo is a city in Asante Akim North District of Ashanti Region of Ghana. Agogo is approximately 80 kilometers east of Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital.

The 2000 Ghana census recorded a population of 28,271 in Agogo. Computer projections of the population estimate a 2007 population of 32,859.

Agogo Presbyterian Hospital, established 21 March 1931, is the oldest Mission hospital in Ghana, and its Ophthalmology program serves patients from Ghana, Burkina Faso, Côte D'Ivoire, and Togo.[2] There is also a collaboration with the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Resarch (KCCR) in Kumasi, which is part of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi and associated with the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany. The Asante-Akyem campus of Presbyterian University College is in Agogo, with a health and medical sciences department affiliated with the hospital.[3]

Agogo and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in partnership with Fort Lauderdale-based Citrix Systems and Sister Cities International, launched the prototype Cyber Sister Cities (CSC) program.[4]

[edit] Sister City

Agogo has one sister city:[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Agogo, Ghana page. Falling Rain Genomics. Retrieved on 2007-06-24.
  2. ^ Agogo Presbyterian Hospital, Ghana. World Health Organization. Retrieved on 2007-06-24.
  3. ^ Presbyterian University College. Presbyterian University College Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-06-24.
  4. ^ Sister Cities International (10 July 2006). "Citrix Systems, Inc. to be honored at Sister Cities International Gala". Press release. Retrieved on 2007-06-24.
  5. ^ Online Directory Ghana, Africa. Sister Cities International. Retrieved on 2007-06-24.

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