Bawku Municipal District
Bawku 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 Bawku East District; which was established by Legislative Instrument 1439, until the…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: district of Ghana with 98,500 residents
- Description: district of Ghana
- Also known as: “Bawku”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bawku and Pusiga.
Bawku
Town
Photo: Simon Ontoyin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bawku is a town and is the capital of the Bawku Municipal District, district in the Upper East region of north Ghana, adjacent to the border with Burkina Faso.
Pusiga
Village
Pusiga is a town in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Pusiga is situated 4 km northeast of Bawku Municipal District.
Bawku Municipal District
- Location: Upper East Region, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yoruba—“Bawku Municipal District” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bawku Municipal District”
- Dutch: “Bawku Municipal District”
- Farefare: “Bɔkɔ so’olum”
- Farefare: “Bɔkɔ”
- French: “Bawku municipalité”
- French: “District municipal de Bawku”
- German: “Bawku Municipal District”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Bawku Municipal District”
- Hausa: “Bawku Municipal District”
- Hausa: “Bawku”
- Igbo: “Bawku Municipal District”
- Igbo: “Bawku”
- Italian: “distretto municipale di Bawku”
- Italian: “Distretto municipale di Bawku”
- Japanese: “アッパー・イースト州”
- Kusaal: “Bawku Municipal”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Bawku”
- Southern Dagaare: “Bawku Munisipal Desekyere”
- Southern Dagaare: “Bawku”
- Spanish: “Bawku”
- Swedish: “Bawku Municipal District”
- Yoruba: “Bawku Municipal District”
- Yoruba: “Bawku”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Zawse Forest Reserve and Bakanga.
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