East Gonja Municipal District
East Gonja Municipal Assembly is one of the seven districts in Savannah Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988 when it was known as East Gonja District, until the eastern part of the district was split off by a decree of president John Agyekum Kufuor on 29 February 2008 to create Kpandai District; thus the remaining part has been retained as East Gonja District.- Type: district of Ghana with 118,000 residents
- Description: district in the Savannah Region, Ghana
- Also known as: “Salaga” and “Zabaɣa nuu”
East Gonja Municipal District
Latitude
8.5715° or 8° 34′ 17″ north
Longitude
-0.6773° or 0° 40′ 38″ west
Population
118,000
Elevation
111 metres (364 feet)
Open location code
6CWXH8CF+J3
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yoruba—“East Gonja Municipal District” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “East Gonja”
- Dagbani: “East Gonja Municipal District”
- Dutch: “East Gonja District”
- French: “Gonja est”
- German: “East Gonja Municipal District”
- Hausa: “East Gonna Municipal District”
- Igbo: “East Gonja Municipal District”
- Italian: “distretto di Gonja Est”
- Italian: “Distretto municipale di Gonja Est”
- Japanese: “東ゴンジャ都市郡”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “East Gonja Municipal District”
- Southern Dagaare: “East Gonja Munisipal Desekyere”
- Spanish: “East Gonja”
- Swedish: “East Gonja”
- Yoruba: “East Gonja Municipal District”
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