Tolon-Kumbungu District is a former district that was located in Northern Region,

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 ...

.Tolon-Kumbungu District
Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988, which was created from the former

West Dagomba District West Dagomba District is a former district council that was located in Northern Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1975. However on 1988, it was split off into three new district assemblies: Tamale Municipal Dis ...

Council. However on 28 June 2012, it was split out into two new districts:

Tolon District Tolon District is one of the twenty seven districts in Northern Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Tolon-Kumbungu District in 1988, when it harbored the district capital which was then created from the former West D ...

(capital: Tolon) and

Kumbungu District Kumbungu District is one of the sixteen districts in Northern Region, Ghana. The district assembly is located in the northwest part of Northern Region and has Kumbungu as its capital town. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Tolo ...

(capital:

Kumbungu Kumbungu is a town in the Kumbungu District of the Northern Region of Ghana. Kumbungu is the capital of Kumbungu district. As of 2010, fertility rate in Kumbungu stood at 3.6 (above the national average of 3.5) and had a total population of 39,341 ...

). The district assembly was located in the central part of Northern Region and had Tolon as its capital town.

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Districts of the Northern Region (Ghana) Dagbon {{NorthernRegionGH-geo-stub

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