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Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District is one of the seven districts in
Savannah Region The Savannah Region is one of the newest regions of Ghana and yet the largest region in the country. The creation of the Region follows presentation of a petition by the Gonja Traditional Council, led by the Yagbonwura Tumtumba Boresa Jakpa I. ...
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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 ...
.Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District
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Bole District Bole District is one of the seven districts in Savannah Region, Ghana.Bole District
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in 1988, until the northern part of the district was split off by a decree of president
John Agyekum Kufuor John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor (born 8 December 1938) is a Ghanaian politician who served as the President of Ghana from 7 January 2001 to 7 January 2009. He was also Chairperson of the African Union from 2007 to 2008. Kufuor's career has been sp ...
on 27 August 2004 to create Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District; thus the remaining part has been retained as
Bole District Bole District is one of the seven districts in Savannah Region, Ghana.Bole District
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. The district assembly is located in the western part of Savannah Region and has
Sawla Sawla (also known as Felege Neway) is a town in southern Ethiopia. Located in Gofa Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of above sea level. It is surrounde ...
as its capital town.


Localities

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Kulmasa Kulmasa is a town in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District, Savannah Region, Ghana. In the 1890s, it marked the southern frontier of the Kingdom of Wala {{No footnotes, date=October 2022 The Kingdom of Wala was a polity in what is today Ghana based around ...


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References

Districts of the Savannah Region (Ghana) {{Ghana-geo-stub