🇬🇭 Ghana 17 administrative divisions
17 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 12,574 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.
The country
- ISO 3166-1
- GH · GHA · 288
- Capital
- Accra
- Continent
- Africa
- Currency
- GHS — Ghana cedi
- Calling code
- +233
- Internet domain
- .gh
- Divisions
- 17
- Cities and towns
- 12,574
Divisions
The 17 divisions of Ghana
17 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.
| Division | ISO 3166-2 | Cities and towns | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashanti Region | GH-AH | 2,303 | — |
| Western Region | GH-WP | 1,964 | — |
| Volta Region | GH-TV | 1,334 | 1,878,316 |
| Central Region | GH-CP | 1,074 | — |
| Northern Region | GH-NP | 1,024 | — |
| Upper West Region | GH-UW | 737 | — |
| Eastern Region | GH-EP | 734 | — |
| Upper East Region | GH-UE | 666 | 1,273,700 |
| Greater Accra Region | GH-AA | 526 | 5,455,692 |
| Bono Region | GH-BO | 513 | — |
| North East Region | GH-NE | 442 | — |
| Savannah Region | GH-SV | 409 | — |
| Ahafo Region | GH-AF | 392 | — |
| Brong-Ahafo Region | GH-BA | 258 | — |
| Bono East Region | GH-BE | 86 | — |
| Western North Region | GH-WN | 85 | — |
| Oti Region | GH-OT | 25 | 742,700 |
A further 2 places could not be matched to a
division and are listed separately in the API as
"unassigned": true.
Get it
Both files, in one request each
# every division of Ghana
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/GH.json
# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/GH/<id>.jsonNo key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.