Builsa District is a former district that was located in
Upper East Region
The Upper East Region is located in north Ghana and is the third smallest of the 16 administrative regions in Ghana. It occupies a total land surface of 8,842 square kilometers or 2.7 per cent of the total land area of Ghana. The Upper East regi ...
,
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 created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988. However on 28 June 2012, it was split off into two new districts:
Builsa North District (which it was elevated to municipal district assembly status on 19 December 2018; capital:
Sandema) and
Builsa South District (capital:
Fumbisi
Fumbisi is a town in the Builsa South District in the Upper East Region of Ghana. The town is known for rice production. In 2019, the Paramount Chief of Fumbisi was Nab Clement Anyatuik Akanko II.
Institutions
* St. Peter & Paul Parish
* Fu ...
). The district assembly was located in the western part of Upper East Region and had
Sandema as its capital town.
Sources
*
GhanaDistricts.com
References
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Districts of Upper East Region