Axim birni ne na bakin teku kuma babban birnin gundumar Nzema ta Gabas, gundumar a Yankin Yammacin Kudancin Gana. Axim yana da tazarar kilomita 64 yamma da tashar jiragen ruwa na Sekondi-Takoradi a Yankin Yamma zuwa yammacin Cape Points. Axim yana da yawan mazaunan 2013 na mutane 27,719. Mutanen Nzema sun mamaye wannan yanki. Fotigal ya isa a farkon karni na 16 a matsayin yan kasuwa. Sun gina mashahurin sansanin teku, Sansanin Santo Antonio, a 1515. Sun fitar da wasu 'yan Afirka a matsayin bayi zuwa Turai da Amurka. Tsakanin 1642 da 1872, Dutch ɗin ya faɗaɗa kuma ya canza shi, wanda ya “yi mulki” a lokacin. Sansanin, yanzu mallakar Ghana, a buɗe yake ga jama'a. Kusa da bakin teku wasu tsibirai ne masu kayatarwa, gami da wanda ke da fitila. Garin Axim ya kasu kashi biyu: Upper Axim da Lower Axim. Sansanin Santo Antonio ya ta'allaka ne akan rarrabuwa tsakanin sassan biyu, amma mafi kusa da tsakiyar Upper Axim, asalin mazaunin Turai. Anan, manyan manyan gidaje da yawa na manyan masu sayar da katako da sauran 'yan kasuwa sun kasance daga ƙarshen karni na 19 da lokacin masarautar Biritaniya.