The municipality is located in the western part of Upper East Region and has Navrongo as its capital town.

[1] The climatic conditions of the Kassena Nankana Municipality is characterized by the dry and wet seasons, which are influenced mainly by two (2) air masses – the North-East Trade winds and the South-Westerly's (Tropical Maritime).

The harmattan air mass (North-East Trade Winds) is usually dry and dusty as it originates from the Sahara Desert.

The landscape is generally undulating with isolated hills rising up to about 300 metres above sea level in the western parts of the municipality.

The drainage system of the municipality is constituted mainly around the tributaries of the Sissili River – Asibelika, Afumbeli, Bukpegi and Beeyi.

The groundwater laterites are developed mainly over shale and granite and cover approximately sixty percent of the municipality's land area.

There are 9 of such committees in the assembly including; the social services; justice and security; finance and administrative; women and children; works; economic and development planning; climate, environment and agriculture; medium and small scale enterprise and public compliant committees.

The payment of bride price takes the form of cola nuts, tobacco and guinea fowls.

The major crops grown are millet, sorghum, rice, groundnuts, leafy vegetables, cowpea, bambara beans, okro, cotton, tomatoes and onions.

Trading and commercial activities in the municipality revolves mainly around foodstuffs, semi-processed food and crafts.

It is mostly characterized by small scale food processing, craft and manufacturing industries, examples of which include smock weaving, pottery and blacksmithing.

The Naara Rural Bank Limited, with its head office located at Paga has an agency at Navrongo.

Such institutions include Non-governmental Organizations, Community Based Rural Development Project and National Board for Small Scale Industries.

The special weather condition has also made it possible for the generation of electricity for national use through a solar plant in Pungu, a suburb of Navrongo.

The Tono irrigation facility has also made it possible for all-year round cultivation of crops especially vegetables such as tomato, pepper, cabbage and onion.

The municipality abounds in tourism potentials including various sites, cultural practices and other features of tourists' interests.