Adaklu-Anyigbe District

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Adaklu-Anyigbe District
country GhanaGhana Ghana
region Volta region
Capital Kpetoe
District Chief Executive Michael Kobla Adzaho
surface 1,061 km²
population 59,000 (2011)
Population density 56 Ew. / km²

The Adaklu-Anyigbe District is a district of the Ghanaian Volta Region , which emerged from the Ho District in 2005.

The capital of the 1,060.61 km² district, which has twenty cities, is Kpetoe . It borders (clockwise and starting in the north) with the Ho Municipal District , the Republic of Togo , the Akatsi District , the North Tongu District , the Asuogyaman District in the Eastern Region and the South Dayi District .

In 2011 the population was given as about 59,000; eleven years earlier, the population was 52,850 and consisted mainly of Ewe (80 percent) and Ga (15 percent) members. 70 percent of the people profess Christianity , 11 percent follow Islam , the rest profess traditional religions ; the population growth in 2000 was 1.17 percent.

The district has two rainy seasons between mid-March and July and between August and November; the monthly rainfall is between 20.1 liters per square meter in December and 192 millimeters in June.

The length of the road network in the district is 213 kilometers. Only the 41-kilometer main road that connects Kpetoe with Ziope and the regional capital Ho is paved with bitumen .

District Chief Executive is Michael Kobla Adzaho; the current Minister for Women and Children of the Republic of Ghana, Juliana Azumah-Mensah , is the district's MP.

Seventy percent of the population works in the primary economic sector; the most important products are corn , cassava , sweet potatoes , yams , black peas , peanuts , tomatoes , pepper , aubergines , okra , melons and mango .

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Coordinates: 6 ° 33 ′  N , 0 ° 42 ′  W