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Regional Minister	Joseph Amenowode Joseph Amenowode Joseph Zaphenat Amenowode is a Ghanaian politician and academic. He is the Member of Parliament for Hohoe South and is the Minister for the Volta Region of Ghana. He has worked as a university lecturer prior to going into politics.-Early life in education:...
Capital	Ho Ho, Ghana Ho is a town in southeast Ghana and is the capital of the Volta Region. It lies between Mount Adaklu and Mount Galenukui , and is home to a museum, a cathedral and a large prison...
Area Area Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat...	20,570 km² Ranked 5th
Population Population A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals... 2000 Census 1984 Census	Ranked 7th 1,635,421 1,211,907
Districts Districts of Ghana ||The Districts of Ghana are second-level administrative subdivisions of Ghana, below the level of region.The districts of Ghana were re-organized in 1988/1989 in an attempt to decentralize the government and to combat the rampant corruption amongst officials...	18
ISO 3166-2 ISO 3166-2:GH ISO 3166-2:GH is the entry for Ghana in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Ghana, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined...	GH-TV

Volta Region is one of Ghana

Ghana

Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

's ten administrative regions

Regions of Ghana

||Ghana is divided into ten regions :*Ashanti Region *Brong-Ahafo Region *Central Region *Eastern Region *Greater Accra Region *Northern Region *Upper East Region...

. It is to the east of Lake Volta

Lake Volta

Lake Volta is the largest reservoir by surface area in the world, and the fourth largest one by water volume. It is located completely within the country of Ghana, and it has a surface area of about 8,502 km² . Lake Volta lies along the Greenwich Meridian, and just six degrees of latitude...

. Its capital is Ho

Ho, Ghana

Ho is a town in southeast Ghana and is the capital of the Volta Region. It lies between Mount Adaklu and Mount Galenukui , and is home to a museum, a cathedral and a large prison...

.

List of districts

The region has 18 districts consisting of 3 municipal and 15 ordinary districts:

DISTRICT	CAPITAL	DISTRICT CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Adaklu-Anyigbe District Adaklu-Anyigbe District The Adaklu-Anyigbe District is a district of Ghana in the Volta Region. It is one of the 28 newly created districts. It is bordered on the north by the Ho Municipal District from which it was created. In the south, it is bordered by the North Tongu District and the Akatsi District, while its...	Kpetoe Agortime-Kpetoe Agortime-Kpetoe also known as Kpetoe is a town in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is the capital of the Adaklu-Anyigbe District. It is about 23 kilometres south east of Ho, the regional capital.-External links and sources:**...	Michael Kobla Adzaho
Akatsi District Akatsi District The Akatsi District is a district of Ghana in the Volta Region. It is located in the south eastern part of the region. To the south is the Keta Municipal District, to the east, the Ketu District, the North and South Tongu Districts to the west and Ho Municipal District and the Republic of Togo to...	Akatsi Akatsi Akatsi is a town in Ghana. It is the capital of Akatsi District. The main language of any social and economic interaction is Ewe. Economic activities are mainly subsistent agriculture coupled with vibrant buying and selling. Smuggling of clothing from Lomé in Togo through Aflao to Accra...	Peter Kwasi Nortsu-Kotoe
Biakoye District Biakoye District The Biakoye District is a district in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is one of the 27 new districts inaugurated officially on 29 February 2008. This district however did not get inaugurated on the day because of a court injunction. This followed what seems to be litigation between various...	Nkonya Ahenkro Nkonya Ahenkro Nkonya Ahenkro is a town in the Biakoye District of the Volta Region of Ghana. It is the capital town of the new district created in 2008 by the Kufuor government. To the east is Kpeme, one of the towns in the Gbi Traditional Area...	Louis Nana Akattah
Ho Municipal District Ho Municipal District The Ho Municipal District is a district of Ghana in the Volta Region. It encompasses the city of Ho and Ho West-Sources:*...	Ho Ho, Ghana Ho is a town in southeast Ghana and is the capital of the Volta Region. It lies between Mount Adaklu and Mount Galenukui , and is home to a museum, a cathedral and a large prison...	Isaac Kwasi Kodobisah
Hohoe Municipal District	Hohoe Hohoe Hohoe is a town in the mountainous Hohoe Municipality of the Volta Region of Ghana, with its beautiful climate and many tourist attractions like the Wli Waterfalls. It is between Lake Volta and the border of Togo. Hohoe is connected by road to Kpandu and Ho in Ghana; and Kpalimé and Badou in Togo....	Victor-Herman Condobrey
Jasikan District Jasikan District The Jasikan District is a district of Ghana in the Volta Region. Amongst the most important towns in the district are Teteman, Bodada and Nsuta.- Sources :*...	Jasikan Jasikan Jasikan is a town in the Jasikan District of the Volta Region of Ghana. It is the capital of the Jasikan District and lies 260 kilometres north-east of Accra, the capital of Ghana. Jasikan was the only urban area in the district around 1970. Since the 1984 populations census however, it has been...	Nana Barima Kumessy-Bonsy II
Kadjebi District Kadjebi District The Kadjebi District is a district of Ghana in the Volta Region.-Sources:*...	Kadjebi Kadjebi Kadjebi is the capital of the Kadjebi District in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is in the northern part of the Volta Region and not far from the Ghana - Togo international border.-External links and sources:*...	Seth Alifui
Keta Municipal District	Keta Keta Keta is a city in Volta Region, Ghana. It was an important trading post between the 14th and late 20th century via a port and fort built by the Dutch in 1784. Parts of the city were devastated by sea erosion between the 1960s and 1980s....	Sylvester Tornyeava
Ketu North District Ketu North District The Ketu North District is a district in the Volta Region of Ghana. It was created out of the former Ketu District and was formally inaugurated on 29 February 2008. The rest of the old Ketu District continues as the Ketu South District. The capital is Dzodze....	Dzodze Dzodze Dzodze is a town in the south eastern corner of Ghana. It ls the capital of the new Ketu North District in the south of the Volta Region. It is close to the border between Togo and Ghana....	vacant
Ketu South District	Denu Denu -External links and sources:*...	Bernard Frank Amarble
Kpando District Kpando District The Kpando District is a district of Ghana in the Volta Region. It is one of the oldest administrative districts in the country dating back to the colonial era. Some of the towns located in the district include Vakpo, Wusuta, Kpandu Torkor, Dzigbe, Togorme, Sovie, Anfoega Adame, Anfoega Akukome,...	Kpandu Kpandu Kpandu is a town in the mountainous Volta Region of Ghana. It is near the north eastern arm of Lake Volta and the Togo border. Kpandu is connected by road through Gbefi to Hohoe, Ho and Dumbai.The Kpando District is a district of Ghana in the Volta Region. It is one of the oldest administrative...	Francis Ganyaglo
Krachi East District Krachi East District The Krachi East District is a district of Ghana in the Volta Region. It is one of the newest districts of Ghana, being a recent split from the Krachi District. It is surrounded by the Nkwanta District to the north, the Kadjebi District to the east, the new Krachi District and the Volta Lake to the...	Dambai Dambai Dambai is a town in the northern part of the Volta Region of Ghana. It is the capital of the Krachi East District. It is located on the eastern coast of the...	Rapheal Kofi Ogyemoko
Krachi West District	Kete Krachi Kete Krachi Kete Krachi is a city in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is the capital of the Krachi West District. It is in the West of the region, and is adjacent to Lake Volta. Kete Krachi is connected by a ferry to the town of Kwadjokrom, and by road to Bimbila and Dumbai....	Kwame Ponye
Nkwanta North District Nkwanta North District The Nkwanta North District is a district of Ghana in the Volta Region. It is one of the newly created districts inaugurated in February 2008. Nkwanta North is located in the north of the Volta Region. The demographic data for this new district is now being extracted. The capital is Kpassa.-Sources:*...	Kpassa	Paul Levin Gyato
Nkwanta South District	Nkwanta	Joseph Nyofam Ninkab
North Tongu District North Tongu District The North Tongu District is a district of Ghana in the Volta Region. It was first established in 1989 as the Adidome District. The name was later changed as people pushed for a more unifying name for the district.-Boundaries:...	Adidome Adidome Adidome is the capital of the North Tongu District in the Volta Region of Ghana. The Volta River flows close to it on its way into the Atlantic Ocean.-External links and sources:*...	Bubey Dzinadu
South Dayi District South Dayi District The South Dayi District is a district of Ghana in the Volta Region. It is one of the 28 districts created in 2004 and was officially inaugurated on 19 August 2004 at Kpeve, the capital.-Boundaries:...	Kpeve Kpeve Kpeve is a town in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is the capital of the South Dayi District. The District Assembly seats here....	Kafui Bekui Kafui Bekui Semenu Kafui Bekui is the District Chief Executive of the South Dayi District in the Volta Region of Ghana.Kafui Bekui worked as a fish scientist with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in Ghana before going into politics. He was based at the Volta Regional Agricultural Development Programme at Ho...
South Tongu District South Tongu District The South Tongu District is a district of Ghana in the south of the Volta Region. Its capital is Sogakope.It has the North Tongu District to its north and north-west, the Akatsi District to the northeast, Keta District to the south and the Dangme East District in the Greater Accra Region to the...	Sogakope Sogakope Sogakope is the capital of the South Tongu District of Ghana. The international highway from Togo through Ghana to Cote d'Ivoire passes through Sogakope. Very important on this route is the Sogakope bridge in this town across the lower Volta River.-External links:* at Google Maps...	Kwabla Woyome

Background

The region was formed by the union of the former British Togoland

British Togoland

British Togoland was a League of Nations Class B mandate in West Africa, under the mandatory power of the United Kingdom. It was effectively formed in 1916 by the splitting of the occupied German protectorate of Togoland into two territories, French Togoland and British Togoland, during the First...

 which was part of the German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 protectorate of Togoland

Togoland

Togoland was a German protectorate in West Africa from 1884 to 1914, encompassing what is now the nation of Togo and most of what is now the Volta Region of Ghana. The colony was established during the period generally known as the "Scramble for Africa"...

 and the south eastern part of the Gold Coast

Gold Coast (British colony)

The Gold Coast was a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa that became the independent nation of Ghana in 1957.-Overview:The first Europeans to arrive at the coast were the Portuguese in 1471. They encountered a variety of African kingdoms, some of which controlled substantial...

, east of the Volta river

Volta River

The Volta is a river in western Africa that drains into the Gulf of Guinea. It has three main tributaries—the Black Volta, White Volta and Red Volta...

. It was administered as part of the Gold Coast by the British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 as Trans Volta Togoland. Before Ghana's independence, a plebiscite held on 9 May 1956 saw the territory decide to join Ghana at independence.

Demographics

The largest ethnic group in the region is the Ewe people

Ewe people

The Ewe are a people located in the southeast corner of Ghana, east of the Volta River, in an area now described as the Volta Region, in southern Togo and western Benin...

 who make up 68.5% of the region's population. They consist of several sub groups. Other major ethnicities include the Guan people (9.2%) made up of over 18 sub groups and the Akan people

Akan people

The Akan people are an ethnic group found predominately in Ghana and The Ivory Coast. Akans are the majority in both of these countries and overall have a population of over 20 million people.The Akan speak Kwa languages-Origin and ethnogenesis:...

 (8.5%) with over 19 sub-groups. The fourth largest group is the Gurma

Gurma

Gourma redirects here. For the Burkina Faso province, see Gourma Province.Gurma is an ethnic group living mainly in Burkina Faso, around Fada N'Gourma, and also in northern areas of Togo and Benin, as well as southwestern Niger...

 in the north, forming 6.5% of the region's population. Also present in this region are the Ga

Ga people

The Ga-Adangbe are an ethnic group in the West African nation of Ghana. It is part of the Dangme ethnic group. The Ga people are grouped as part of theGa–Dangme ethnolinguistic group. They speak Kwa languages...

-Dangme, Mole-Dagbon

Dagomba

The Dagomba are an ethnic group of Northern Ghana. They inhabit the sparse savanna region below the sahelian belt, known as the Sudan. They speak the Dagbani language which belongs to the More-Dagbani sub-group of Gur languages...

, Grusi and the Mande-Busanga

Administration

The region is run by a Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) and a District Assembly. The RCC is made up of the Regional Minister who is the political head and his deputy as well as representatives of the Regional House of Chiefs, the District Chief Executives of the region, the Presiding Members of the 12 Districts Assemblies and representatives of the various decentralized Ministries, Departments and Agencies in the region. Each district is run by a District Assembly.

Constituencies

The region has had 22 constituencies since the December 2004 parliamentary election

Ghanaian parliamentary election, 2004

The Ghanaian parliamentary election was held on 7 December 2004. Presidential elections were held on the same day.-Results:-See also:*List of Ghana Parliament constituencies*MPs elected in the Ghana parliamentary election, 2004-External links:**...

. At the previous election in December 2000

Ghanaian parliamentary election, 2000

The Ghanaian parliamentary election was held on 7 December 2000. Presidential elections were held on the same day with a second round on 28 December 2000. 62% of registered voters turned out for the elections...

, there were 19 constituencies.

Sources

• Districts of Ghana from statoids.com
• GhanaDistricts.com

External links

• Ghana Tourism - Volta Region