Sefwi-Wiawso Municipal District is one of the nine districts in

Western North Region The Western North region is one of the six new regions of Ghana created in 2019. The region is bounded by the Ivory Coast ( Comoé District) on the west, the Central region in the southeast, and the Ashanti, Ahafo, Bono East and Bono regions ...

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 created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988 when it was known as

Sefwi-Wiawso District Sefwi-Wiawso Municipal District is one of the nine districts in Western North Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Sefwi-Wiawso District, until the southwest part of the district was spli ...

, until the southwest part of the district was split off to create

Sefwi-Akontombra District Sefwi-Akontombra District is one of the nine districts in Western North Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Sefwi-Wiawso District Sefwi-Wiawso Municipal District is one of the nine districts in Western North Region, ...

on 29 February 2008; thus the remaining part has been retained as Sefwi-Wiawso District, which it was later elevated to municipal district assembly status in March 2012 (effectively 28 June 2012) to become Sefwi-Wiawso Municipal District. The municipality is located in the northeast part of Western North Region and has

Wiawso The Kingdom of Sefwi was a historical Akan state located in the western forest zone of what is now Ghana. It emerged in the 17th century as a confederation of migrant groups fleeing political upheaval in Bono, Adansi, Denkyira, and Asante, wh ...

as its capital town.

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Districts of the Western North Region {{WesternNorthRegion-geo-stub

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