Somanya Explained

Somanya should not be confused with Osmanya alphabet.

Official Name:Somanya
Settlement Type:Town
Pushpin Map:Ghana
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Somanya in Eastern Region
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Ghana
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1: Eastern Region
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Yilo Krobo District
Unit Pref:Imperial
Population As Of:2013
Population Total:20,596[1]
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Timezone:GMT
Timezone Dst:GMT
Coordinates:6.1039°N -0.015°W

Somanya is a town and the capital of Yilo Krobo District, a district in the Eastern Region of south Ghana.[2] Somanya has a 2013 settlement population of 20,596 people.And currently has a settlement population of 16,441,362 in the year 2021. Because the town is surrounded by a number of farming communities to the north of it, the name Somanya is used to encompass a collection of smaller communities around a bigger one. As a result, the 2010 Population and Housing Census conducted by the Government of Ghana put the population of Somanya at 87,847, representing 3.3% of the region's total population. Males constitute 48.2 percent of the population while females represent 51.8 percent, according to the Ghana Census Bureau. The entire Krobo district is described as rural, and Somanya is the municipal district center of the surrounding smaller towns. With the capital of Ghana, Accra, rapidly expanding northwards, the traveling distance between Somanya and Accra is shrinking and now is around . The temperatures are highest on average in March, at around 28.4 °C. At 25.1 °C on average, August is the coldest month of the year.

Household size, composition, and structure

The municipal has a household population of 86,567 with a total number of 20,613 households. The average household size in the municipality is 4.2 persons per household. Children constitute the largest proportion of the household structure accounting for 39.4 percent. Spouses form about 10.5 percent. Nuclear households (head, spouse(s) and children) constitute 26.3 percent of the total number of households in the district.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: World Gazetteer online . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155500/http://bevoelkerungsstatistik.de/wg.php?x=1170623253&men=gcis&lng=de&dat=32&geo=-85&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=x . dead . September 30, 2007 . World-gazetteer.com .
  2. http://www.yilokrobo.ghanadistricts.gov.gh/ Yilo Krobo district