Ghana Districts: A repository of all Local Assemblies in Ghana

About The Eastern Region

The Eastern Region is one of the five original regions with which Ghana began at independence on 6th March 1957, alongside the Ashanti, Northern, Western and Volta Regions. Its capital is Koforidua, seat of the New Juaben South Metropolitan Assembly. For many years the region also included the Accra area, then administered separately as the Accra Capital District; in July 1982, PNDC Law 26 gave that area the status of a separate region, the present Greater Accra Region.
With 2,929,042 residents recorded in the 2021 Population and Housing Census, the Eastern Region is Ghana's third most populous region, after Greater Accra and Ashanti. Its 33 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies give it the second highest number of local government units in the country, after the Ashanti Region.

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