Afigya Kwabre District is a former district that was located in

Ashanti Region The Ashanti Region is located in the southern part of Ghana and is the third largest of Regions of Ghana, 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of and making up 10.2 percent of the total land area of Ghana. It is the List of ...

Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

. It was created from the western portion of Afigya-Sekyere District (now currently known as

Sekyere South District Sekyere South Municipal is one of the eighteen municipals in Ashanti Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Afigya-Sekyere District, which it was created from part of the former Kwabre-Sek ...

) and the western portion of

Kwabre District Kwabre District is a former district that was located in Ashanti Region of Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988, which it was created from the former Kwabre-Sekyere District Council; until the western part of the di ...

(now currently known as

Kwabre East Municipal District Kwabre East Municipal District is one of the forty-three districts in Ashanti Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Kwabre District, after it was created from part of the former Kwabre-Sek ...

) on 1 November 2007 (effectively 29 February 2008). However on 15 March 2018, it was split into two new districts:

Afigya Kwabre South District Afigya Kwabre South District is one of the forty-three districts in Ashanti Region, Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, an ...

(capital: Kodie) and

Afigya Kwabre North District Afigya Kwabre North District is one of the forty-three districts in Ashanti Region, Ghana. It was formerly part of the then-larger Afigya-Kwabre District until the northern part of the district was split off to create Afigya Kwabre North District ...

(capital:

Boamang Boamang (also known as Boaman), is the district capital of the Afigya Kwabre North District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and ...

). The district assembly was the northern part of Ashanti Region and had Kodie as its capital town.

External links

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GhanaDistricts.com

References

Districts of Ashanti Region {{AshantiRegion-geo-stub