West Gonja District


The West Gonja District is one of the districts in the Savannah Region of north Ghana. The capital is Damongo. Per the 2010 Population and Housing Consensus, the district is estimated to have a population of 41,180, which accounts for 1.7 percent of the region’s total population. Among the residents, 80.2 percent are native-born Ghanaian, and 60.5 percent of the employed population work within fishing, agriculture and forestry industries.