Ashanti Empire expanded to the region that has the smallest area of Ghana's 10 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of 3,245 square kilometres or 1.4 per cent of the total land area of Ghana which is called the Greater Accra region.
7 per cent of Ghana's total population
Four National highways  N1, N2, N4 and N6  and one Regional highway  R40  pass through the Greater Accra region

