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This is a list of Ghanaian regions by population, ranked according to the latest census, which took place on 26 September 2010. Past census data (1960, 1970, 1984, and 2000) is included for comparison. (Note: The current boundaries of Ghana's administrative regions were not fully established until 1983.
The area of the Republic of Ghana (the then Gold Coast) became known in Europe and Arabia as the Ghana Empire after the title of its Emperor, the Ghana. [1] Geographically, the ancient Ghana Empire was approximately 500 miles (800 km) north and west of the modern state of Ghana, and controlled territories in the area of the Sénégal River and east towards the Niger rivers, in modern Senegal ...
An enlargeable topographic map of Ghana. Geography of Ghana. Ghana is: a country; Regions : 16 Regions; Population of Ghana: 28,830,000 - 47th most populous country; Area of Ghana: 238,535 km 2; Atlas of Ghana
In 1990 63 persons per square kilometer was the estimate for Ghana's overall population density. These averages did not reflect variations in population distribution. For example, while the Northern Region, one of ten administrative regions, showed a density of seventeen persons per square kilometer in 1984, in the same year Greater Accra ...
Ghana is characterized in general by low physical relief. The Precambrian rock system that underlies most of the nation has been worn down by erosion almost to a plain. [1] The highest elevation in Ghana, Mount Afadja in the Akwapim-Togo Ranges, rises 880 metres (2,890 ft) above sea level. [1] There are four distinct geographical regions. [1]
The following table presents a listing of Ghana's 16 regions ranked in order of their ... 10 Savannah: 35,862 11 North East: ... List of Ghanaian regions by population;
The Greater Accra Region has the smallest area of Ghana's 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of 3,245 square kilometres. [3] This is 1.4 per cent of the total land area of Ghana. It is the most populated region, with a population of 5,455,692 in 2021, accounting for 17.7 per cent of Ghana's total population. [4] [5]
Nyakrom is a town in the Agona West Municipal District of the Central Region of Ghana. [2] [3] The town is known for the Nyakrom Day Secondary School. [4] [5] The school is a second cycle institution. [6] Nyakrom is the sixty-second most populous settlement in Ghana, in terms of population, with a population of 22,911 people. [1]