Region Upper West Region ISO 3166 code GH-UW-LA | Capital Lawra Area 509 km² | |
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Time zone Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0) | ||
The Lawra District is one of the nine (9) districts in the Upper West Region of north Ghana. Its capital is Lawra.
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Map of Lawra, Ghana
Governance
Lawra District is one of the nine Districts that make up the Upper West Region and derives its legal existence from Legislative Instrument (L.I) 1434 of 1988.
Geography
Lawra District lies in the North Western corner of the Upper West Region between Longitudes 2°25"W and 2°45"W and Latitudes 10°20"N and 11°00"N.
It is bounded to the East and South by the Jirapa/Lambussie District and Lambussie-Karni District. The total area of the District as at 2014 (GSS, 2012) is estimated to be 483.6 square kilometres. This constitutes about 2.6% of the Region’s total area, which is estimated at 18,476 square kilometres. This follows the splitting of Nandom in 2012 as its own district.