The Adentan Municipal is one of the 261 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana, and forms part of the 29  MMDAs in the Greater Accra Region.

Adentan Municipal with its Administrative capital as Adentan and was carved out of Tema Metropolitan Assembly in February 2008 by LI 1888.

The Municipality lies 10 kilometres to the Northeast of Accra, which is specifically located on latitude 5' 43'' north and longitude 0' 09'' west.

It shares boundaries with Ashaiman Municipal Assembly and Kpone Katamanso Municipal Assembly in the east and north, La Nkwantanang Madina Municipal Assembly in the west and south, Tema Metropolitan in the north.

The population of the Municipality according to 2021 population and housing census stands at 237,546 with 117,841 males and 119,705 females.