Adenta 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 ...

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 formerly part of the then-larger

Tema Municipal District Tema Metropolitan District is one of the twenty-nine districts in Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Originally created as a municipal district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Tema Municipal District, which was created from the former Tema Distr ...

, which was created from the former

Tema District Tema is a city on the Bight of Benin and Atlantic coast of Ghana. It is located east of the capital city; Accra, in the region of Greater Accra, and is the capital of the Tema Metropolitan District. As of 2013, Tema is the eleventh most po ...

Council, until two parts of the district were later split off to create Adenta Municipal District (from the northwest part) and

Ashaiman Municipal District Ashaiman Municipal District is one of the twenty-nine districts in Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Tema Municipal District, which was created from the former Tema District Council, until two parts ...

(from the north central part) respectively on 29 February 2008; thus the remaining part was elevated to metropolitan district assembly status on that same year to become

Tema Metropolitan District Tema Metropolitan District is one of the twenty-nine districts in Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Originally created as a municipal district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Tema Municipal District, which was created from the former Tema Distric ...

. The municipality is located in the central part of Greater Accra Region and has

Adenta East Adenta East is a town in Adenta District in the Greater Accra Region of southeastern Ghana, and north of Madina.La Nkwantanang Madina Municipal District La Nkwantanang Madina Municipal District is one of the twenty-nine districts in Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Ga East District in 2004, until the eastern part of the district was split off to crea ...

, to the east by

Kpone Katamanso Municipal District Kpone-Katamanso Municipal District is one of the twenty-nine districts in Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Tema Municipal District, which was created from the former Tema District Council, until the ...

and

, to the south by

Ledzokuku Municipal District Ledzokuku Municipal District is one of the twenty-nine districts in Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the defunct Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal District on 29 February 2008 (which was created from Accra Metropolitan Dist ...

and

Krowor Municipal District Krowor Municipal District is one of the twenty-nine districts in Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the defunct Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal District on 29 February 2008 (which was created from Accra Metropolitan Distric ...

, and to the west by

Accra Metropolis 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 ...

Population

The total area of the district is 92.84 square kilometers. According to the 2010 census, the population of the district is 78,215 with 39,366 males and 38,849 females. The current population based Ghana Statistical Service record is 96,478.

Sources

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GhanaDistricts.com

References

Districts of Greater Accra Region 2008 establishments in Ghana {{GreaterAccra-geo-stub