Bolgatanga Municipal District
Bolgatanga Municipal District is one of the fifteen districts in Upper East Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Bolgatanga District; which was established by Legislative Instrument 1438, until the…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: district of Ghana
- Description: district of Ghana
- Also known as: “Bolgatanga”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bolgatanga Girls Senior High School.
Bolgatanga Girls Senior High School
School
Bolgatanga Girls Senior High School is an all female second cycle institution in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region of Ghana, established in 1956 as a girls' middle boarding school and converted to a women's teaching college in 1965 and to a girls' senior high school in 1973.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bolgatanga and Zuarungu.
Bolgatanga
Photo: Vrinda Khushu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bolgatanga is the capital of Bolgatanga municipality in the Upper East Ghana. It is a land of so many languages and dialects but dominated by the Farefari/Gurene speakers.
Zuarungu
Village
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Zuarungu is a town in the Upper East Region of Ghana east of Bolgatanga. The town is the capital of the Bolgatanga East District. The people living in Zuarungu are part of the Frafra tribe. Frafra and English are commonly spoken. Zuarungu is situated 5 km east of Bolgatanga Municipal District.
Bolgatanga Municipal District
- Location: Upper East Region, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yoruba—“Bolgatanga Municipal District” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bolgatanga (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Bolgatanga”
- Dutch: “Bolgatanga Municipal District”
- Farefare: “Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly”
- French: “Bolgatanga municipalité”
- French: “District municipal de Bolgatanga”
- German: “Bolgatanga Municipal District”
- German: “Bolgatanga Municipal Distrikt”
- Hausa: “Bolgatanga Municipal District”
- Hausa: “Bolgatanga”
- Igbo: “Bolgatanga Municipal District”
- Igbo: “Bolgatanga”
- Italian: “Bolgatanga Municipal District”
- Italian: “Distretto di Bolgatanga Municipale”
- Italian: “distretto municipale di Bolgatanga”
- Italian: “Distretto municipale di Bolgatanga”
- Japanese: “ボルガタンガ郡”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Bolgatanga”
- Spanish: “Bolgatanga”
- Ukrainian: “Болґатанга”
- Yoruba: “Bolgatanga Municipal District”
- Yoruba: “Bolgatanga”
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