Ayawaso West Municipal District
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Ayawaso West Municipal District is one of the twenty-nine districts in
Greater Accra Region The Greater Accra Region has the smallest area of Ghana's 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of 3,245 square kilometres. This is 1.4 per cent of the total land area of Ghana. It is the second most populated region, befor ...
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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 ...
.https://mofep.gov.gh/sites/default/files/composite-budget/2019/GR/Ayawaso-West.pdf Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger
Accra Metropolitan District The Accra Metropolitan District is one of the 254 Metropolitan, Municipal and Districts in Ghana, and among the 26 such districts in the Greater Accra Region with a population of 284,124 as of 2021. As of March 2018, it spans an area of approxim ...
in 1988, until a small portion of the district was split off to create Ayawaso West Municipal District on 15 March 2018; thus the remaining part has been retained as Accra Metropolitan District. The municipality is located in the central part of Greater Accra Region and has
Dzorwulu Dzorwulu is the capital of the Ayawaso West Municipal District, a district of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Dzorwulu and North Dzorwulu are separated by the Tema Motorway The Tema Motorway officially known as the N1 Highway is a highway t ...
as its capital town.


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