Zabzugu-Tatale 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 ...
. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988, which was created from the former
East Dagomba District
East 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 four new district assemblies: Yendi Municipal Distr ...
Council. However on 28 June 2012, it was split off into two new districts:
Zabzugu District (capital:
Zabzugu) and
Tatale-Sangule District (capital:
Tatale
Tatale is a commercial town in Tatale Sangule District 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 district assembly was located in the eastern part of Northern Region and had
Zabzugu as its capital town.
Demographics
As of the 2010 census, Zabzugu-Tatale District had 123,854 inhabitants. Of those, 57,249 inhabitants were aged up to 14 years old, 61,930 inhabitants were aged between 15 and 64 years old, while 4,675 inhabitants were aged 65 years or older.
References
External links
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GhanaDistricts.com
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Districts of the Northern Region (Ghana)