Tamale Metropolitan District

Tamale Metropolitan District
Metropolitan District
View of high street in Tamale, Tamale Metropolitan District
Seal
Nickname:  <sm>Tamale Metropolis</sm>
Districts of Northern Region
Tamale Metropolitan District Location of Tamale Metropolitan District within Northern
Coordinates: 9°24′30.1″N 0°50′25.63″W
Country	Ghana
Region	Northern
Capital	Tamale
Government
• Metropolitan Chief Executive	Musah Superior
Area
• Total	731 km2 (282 sq mi)
Population  (2021)
• Total	374,744
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)
ISO 3166 code	GH-NP-TA

Tamale Metropolitan District is one of the sixteen districts in Northern Region, Ghana. Originally created as a municipal district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Tamale Municipal District, which was created from the former West Dagomba District Council, until it was elevated to metropolitan district assembly status in August 2004. Later, a small northern part of the district was split off to create Sagnarigu District on 24 June 2012 (which it later was elevated to municipal district assembly status on 15 March 2018 to become Sagnarigu Municipal District); thus the remaining part has been retained as Tamale Metropolitan District. The metropolis is located in the northwest part of Northern Region and has Ghana as its capital city (which is also the capital city of the Northern Region). The metro poly is the central business hub of the region.

Demographics

Clay house compound in the rural area

It has population of about 233252 as of 2010. The population living in urban localities (80.08%) is higher than that living rural localities (19.1%) of the metropolis. the number of women is also high than that of the men.

See also

• Russian Bungalows
• Dimala

Sources

• "Districts of Ghana". Statoids.
• GhanaDistricts.com
• Ghana statistical service