Tamale Metropolitan District

Metropolitan District in Northern, Ghana

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Nickname:

<sm>Tamale Metropolis</sm>

Districts of Northern Region

9°24′30.1″N 0°50′25.63″W / 9.408361°N 0.8404528°W / 9.408361; -0.8404528Country

GhanaRegionNorthernCapitalTamaleGovernment

• Metropolitan Chief ExecutiveMusah SuperiorArea

• Total731 km² (282 sq mi)Population

(2021)

• Total374,744^[1]Time zoneUTC+0 (GMT)ISO 3166 codeGH-NP-TA

Tamale Metropolitan District is one of the sixteen districts in the Northern Region of Ghana. It was originally established in 1988 as Tamale Municipal District, a municipal district assembly that was created from the former West Dagomba District Council. In August 2004, it was elevated to metropolitan district assembly status. Later, on 24 June 2012, a small northern part of the district was split off to create Sagnarigu District (which was elevated to municipal district assembly status on 15 March 2018 and became Sagnarigu Municipal District); the remaining part has been retained as Tamale Metropolitan District. The district is located in the northwest part of Northern Region and has Tamale as its capital city (which is also the capital city of the Northern Region). The city is the central business hub of the region.

Demographics

Tamale Metropolitan District had a population of about 233,252 as of 2010. The population living in urban localities (80.08%) is higher than that living in rural localities (19.1%). The number of women is also higher than the number of men.