Berekum Municipal District is a former district that was located in Brong-Ahafo Region (now currently in

Bono Region The Bono region is one of the 16 administrative regions of Ghana. It is as a result of the remainder of Brong-Ahafo region when Bono East region and Ahafo region were created. Sunyani, also known as the green city of Ghana, is the regional capit ...

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 on 10 March 1989 when it was known as

Berekum District Berekum Municipal District is a former district that was located in Brong-Ahafo Region (now currently in Bono Region), Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly on 10 March 1989 when it was known as Berekum District, which was cre ...

, which was created from the former

Berekum-Jaman District Berekum-Jaman District is a former district council that was located in Brong-Ahafo Region (now currently in Bono Region), Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1975. However in 10 March 1989, it was split off into two new ...

Council. Later it was elevated to municipal district assembly status on 29 February 2008 to become Berekum Municipal District. However, on 15 March 2018, it was split off into two new districts:

Berekum East Municipal District ) , image_skyline = , image_size = , image_caption = , image_flag = , image_seal = , image_map = Districts of the Brong Ahafo Region (2012).svg , map_caption = Districts of Brong-Ahafo Region , pushpin_map = Ghana , pushpin_label_position = , ...

(capital:

Berekum Berekum is a city and is the capital of Berekum Municipal in the Bono Region of Ghana. Berekum has a population of 62,364. The native language of the Berekum people is the Bono Twi. Towns Pepaase, Akroforo, Kotaa, Domeabra, Ampenkro, M ...

) and

Berekum West District Berekum West District is one of the twelve districts in Bono Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Berekum District on 10 March 1989, which was created from the former Berekum-Jaman District Council (which it was later ...

(capital:

Jinijini Jinijini is a town in the Bono Region of Ghana. 'Gyenegyene' is the Akan (Ghanaian Language) word for Jinijini which means pure, clear, still (of water). It is the capital town for Berekum West district which was inaugurated on 15 March 2018. It ...

). The municipality was located in the western part of Brong-Ahafo Region (now western part of Bono Region) and had

as its capital town.

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District: Berekum Municipal District

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