Agotime-Ziope District is one of the eighteen districts in

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- ...

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 ...

. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger

Adaklu-Anyigbe District Adaklu-Anyigbe District is a former district that was located in Volta Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Ho District on 10 March 1989, until the southern part was split off to create Adaklu-Anyigbe District on 13 Au ...

on 13 August 2004, until the western part of the district was split off to create

Adaklu District Adaklu District is one of the eighteen districts in Volta Region, Ghana. It was formerly part of the then-larger Adaklu-Anyigbe District since 13 August 2004. This was until the western part of the district was split off to create Adaklu District ...

on 28 June 2012; thus the remaining part has been renamed as Agotime-Ziope District (under the then-president

John Atta Mills John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills (21 July 1944 – 24 July 2012) was a Ghanaian politician and legal scholar who served as the 11th president of Ghana from 2009 until his death in 2012. He was inaugurated on 7 January 2009, having defeated the govern ...

government). The district assembly is located in the central part of Volta Region and has

Agortime-Kpetoe Agortime-Kpetoe (also known simply as Kpetoe) is a small town and is the capital of Agortime Ziope District, a district in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is currently in the Agortime-Ziope District and the town is known for its cross-border trad ...

as its capital town.

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Districts of Volta Region States and territories established in 2012 {{VoltaRegion-geo-stub