West Gonja Municipal District
West Gonja District | |
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 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 | |
| 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
- ^ West Gonja district
- ^ Ghana Statistical Service (October 2014). "2010 Population and Housing Census | District Analytical Report | West Gonja District" (PDF).
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- "Districts of Ghana". Statoids.
- GhanaDistricts.com
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