; thus the remaining part has been retained as East Gonja Municipal District.

The district assembly is located in the southern part of Northern Region[3] and has Kpandai as its capital town.

The district is largely rural, with approximately 90% of the population engaged in local agriculture.

[4] As of the 2010 census, the district population was 108,816 and included at least 24 different ethnic groups.

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