Communities

This is the main portal to all toponym records for population centres (cities, towns, villages, etc.).
On the region site home pages you can click any of the linked place names to view its toponym record.
On the A-Z page are links to all toponyms with online records listed alphabetically.

  • On each district sub-page you can view the district map.

  • Below the district map, the meaning & origin of the district name is given if known.

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Links

to Region Sites and A-Z

Ghana has 16 administrative regions, each having its own capital city.

The regions are further subdivided into 261 districts with capitals as shown below.

(Past reorganisations have increased the number of districts from 138 to 170 in 2008, to 216 in 2012, to 254 in 2018, to 260 in 2019, and then 261 in 2021.)

On this page you can:

  • click on a region map to enlarge,

  • click on one of the district names which have links, to open a map of the district in a new tab,

  • click on a region button above or heading below to go to a region sub-page showing all places names in the GPN database for that region.

Acknowledgements:

    • Unmodified region/district maps on this page based on the 10-region administrative divisions of 1987-2019 are "By Macabe5387 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]", via Wikimedia Commons. Some districts created in the 2018 reorganisation are not yet represented on the region maps on this page.

    • District maps are from the Ghana Statistical Service and reproduced by permission. (Latest subdivisions not shown.)

    • Contributors and Informants are identified in individual toponym records..

Ahafo Region

https://sites.google.com/site/ghanaplacenames1/database/Bono%20Region.png
https://sites.google.com/site/ghanaplacenames1/database/Bono%20East.png

https://sites.google.com/site/ghanaplacenames1/database/North%20East.png

https://sites.google.com/site/ghanaplacenames1/database/Northern%20Region.png
https://sites.google.com/site/ghanaplacenames1/database/Savannah%20Region.png

https://sites.google.com/site/ghanaplacenames1/database/Volta%20Region.png
https://sites.google.com/site/ghanaplacenames1/database/Western%20Region.png
https://sites.google.com/site/ghanaplacenames1/database/Western%20North.png