Tatale is a commercial town in

Tatale Sangule District Tatale-Sangule District is one of the sixteen districts in Northern Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Zabzugu-Tatale District in 1988, which was created from the former East Dagomba District Council, until the nort ...

in the Northern Region of Ghana. Layout of the town is part nuclear and part linear. Its inhabitants are diverse in ethnicity with the Basares who speak Ntcham as their official language being the majority. The only Senior High School in the district is Tatale Evangelical Presbyterian Agric Senior High School. Market day in Tatale occurs once a week and is attended by many people from both far and near communities including Togoles. The Zambarama people (mostly traders) are frequent in the market center every week and the district is largely rural, with approximately 90% of the population engaged in local agriculture, hence

subsistence agriculture Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow food crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings. Subsistence agriculturalists target farm output for survival and for mostly local requirements, with little or no su ...

is the economic norm in the Tatale Sangule district. The district enjoys the services of three telecommunication service providers namely Vodafone Ghana which provides fixed line services as well as cellular network, MTN Ghana, and AirtelTIGO provide only cellular services.

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Populated places in the Northern Region (Ghana) {{NorthernRegionGH-geo-stub