Sefwi-Wiawso Municipal District
Sefwi-Wiawso Municipal District is one of the nine districts in Western North Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Sefwi-Wiawso District, until the southwest part of the district was split off…| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: district of Ghana with 183,000 residents
- Description: Municipal Assembly in the Western North, Ghana
- Also known as: “Sefwi-Wiawso” and “Sefwi-Wiawso Municipal Assembly”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kingdom of Sefwi.
Kingdom of Sefwi
Town
The Kingdom of Sefwi was a historical Akan state located in the western forest zone of what is now Ghana. It emerged in the 17th century as a confederation of migrant groups fleeing political upheaval in Bono, Adansi, Denkyira, and Asante, who settled in lands previously held by the Aowin polity.
Sefwi-Wiawso Municipal District
- Location: Western North Region, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Yoruba—“Sefwi-Wiawso Municipal District” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Sehwi-Wiawso Mansini”
- Akan: “Sehwi-Wiawso”
- Cebuano: “Sefwi-Wiawso”
- Dutch: “Sefwi-Wiawso District”
- German: “Sefwi Wiawso Municipal District”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Sefwi-Wiawso Municipal District”
- Hausa: “Sefwi-Wiawso Municipal Assembly”
- Hungarian: “Sefwi Wiawso Tradicionális Terület”
- Hungarian: “Sefwi-Wiawso District”
- Hungarian: “Sefwi-Wiawso Municipal District”
- Hungarian: “Sefwi-Wiawso”
- Igbo: “Sefwi-Wiawso Municipal Assembly”
- Igbo: “Sefwi-Wiawso”
- Italian: “distretto di Sefwi-Wiawso”
- Italian: “Distretto municipale di Sefwi-Wiawso”
- Japanese: “セフィ・ウィアソ都市郡”
- Japanese: “セフウィ・ウィアソー都市郡”
- Mossi: “Western North Region-Sefwi Wiawso”
- Southern Dagaare: “Sefwi-Wiawso Munisipal Desekyere”
- Southern Dagaare: “Sefwi-Wiawso”
- Spanish: “Sefwi Wiawso”
- Swedish: “Sefwi-Wiawso”
- Yoruba: “Sefwi-Wiawso Municipal Assembly”
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