“…The region is considered the third largest in Ghana after the Northern, Bono East, and Ahafo region. The Ashanti Region has 27 administrative districts and shares boundaries with Bono East and Ahafo Region in the North, on the east is Eastern Region, on the south, is Central Region and on the southwest with Western Region (Hussey and Malczewski, 2018). The region has a total population of 4, 780,380 (Ghana Statistical Service, 2012), see Figure 1.…”