Ada East District is one of the twenty-nine districts in

Greater Accra Region The Greater Accra Region has the smallest area of Ghana's 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of 3,245 square kilometres. This is 1.4 per cent of the total land area of Ghana. It is the second most populated region, befor ...

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. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger

Dangme East District Dangme East District is a former district that was located in Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988, which was created from the former Dangme District Council. However on 28 June 2012, it was spl ...

in 1988, which was created from the former

Dangme District Dangme District is a former district council that was located in Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1975. However on 1988, it was split off into two new district assemblies: Dangme East District (ca ...

Council, until the western part of the district was split off to create

Ada West District Ada West District is one of the twenty-nine districts in Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Dangme East District in 1988, which was created from the former Dangme District Council, until the western p ...

on 28 June 2012; thus the remaining part has been renamed as Ada East District. The district assembly is located in the eastern part of Greater Accra Region and has

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as its capital town.

Background

Ada East District is located within Latitudes 5°45 and 6°00 (North) and Longitudes 0°20 to 0°35 (East) respectively. The district is bordered to the north and east by

North Tongu District North Tongu District is one of the eighteen districts in Volta Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger and original North Tongu District on 10 March 1989, with Adidome as its capital town, which was created from the forme ...

(in the

Volta Region Volta Region (or Volta) is one of Ghana's sixteen administrative regions, with Ho designated as its capital. It is located west of Republic of Togo and to the east of Lake Volta. Divided into 25 administrative districts, the region is multi- ...

), to the south by the

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, and to the west by

. The total area of the district is 289.783 square kilometers. According to the 2010 census, the population of the district is 71,671 with 34,012 males and 37,659 females. Data available based on the record from Ghana Statistical Service shows the population as at 2019 is 88,321.

References

Districts of Greater Accra Region {{GreaterAccra-geo-stub