Agona West Municipal District is one of the twenty-two districts in Central Region,

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

. Originally, it was part of the then-larger

Agona District Agona District is a former district that was located in Central Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988. However on 29 February 2008, it was split off into two new districts: Agona West District (which was elev ...

in 1988, until the eastern part of the district was split off to create

Agona East District Agona East District is one of the twenty-two districts in Eastern Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Agona District in 1988, until the eastern part of the district was split off to create Agona East District on 29 ...

on 29 February 2008; thus the remaining part has been renamed as

Agona West District Agona West Municipal District is one of the twenty-two districts in Central Region, Ghana. Originally, it was part of the then-larger Agona District in 1988, until the eastern part of the district was split off to create Agona East District on 2 ...

, which was also elevated to municipal district assembly status on that same year to become Agona West Municipal District. The municipality is located in the northeast part of Central Region and has

Agona Swedru Agona Swedru is a town and the capital of Agona West Municipal District, a district in the Central Region of south Ghana. Agona Swedru has a 2013 settlement population of about 70,000 people. Akwambo is the main festival celebrated by th ...

as its capital town.

List of settlements

Sources

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Agona West Municipal – Districts

References

Central Region (Ghana) Districts of the Central Region (Ghana) {{CentralRegionGH-geo-stub