West Gonja District

West Gonja District
District

Districts of Northern region
West Gonja District
West Gonja District in Northern region
Coordinates: 9°08′N 1°49′W / 9.133°N 1.817°W / 9.133; -1.817
Region Northern Region
Capital Damongo
Government
 • District executive Ali Bakari Kassim
Area
 • Total 17,317 km2 (6,686 sq mi)
Population (2013)
 • Total —
Time zone UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
 • Summer (DST) GMT
ISO 3166 code GH-NP-WG

The West Gonja District is one of the twenty districts in the Northern Region of north Ghana.[1] The capital is Damongo. Per the 2010 Population and Housing Consensus, the district is estimated to have a population of 41,180, which accounts for 1.7 percent of the region’s total population. Among the residents, 80.2 percent are native-born Ghanaian, and 60.5 percent of the employed population work within fishing, agriculture and forestry industries.[2]

Sources

  1. ↑ West Gonja district
  2. ↑ Ghana Statistical Service (October 2014). "2010 Population and Housing Census | District Analytical Report | West Gonja District" (PDF).
  • "Districts of Ghana". Statoids.
  • GhanaDistricts.com

Coordinates: 9°05′02″N 1°49′05″W / 9.084°N 1.818°W / 9.084; -1.818

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