Administrative Areas

Name: Ghana Administrative Areas
Creator: Wikidata
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Ghana's regions, districts and traditional areas as recorded in Wikidata, with capital, population, land area and the year each was created — including the areas abolished or split in past reorganisations. Sourced from Wikidata, CC0. 568 records.

v1.0last updated Sep 18, 2026 · snapshotlisting updated Sep 18, 2026GH₵19.00568 recordsGeography

Fields

Every column this dataset returns, with its type. This is the shape of the API response.

Field	Type
name	TEXT NOT NULL
area_type	TEXT
description	TEXT
capital	TEXT
population	BIGINT
area_km2	DECIMAL(14,2)
inception_year	INTEGER
latitude	DECIMAL(9,6)
longitude	DECIMAL(9,6)
wikidata_id	TEXT
source	TEXT

Preview

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First 5 rows of Administrative Areas
nameTEXT NOT NULL	area typeTEXT	descriptionTEXT	capitalTEXT	populationBIGINT	area km2DECIMAL(14,2)	inception yearINTEGER	latitudeDECIMAL(9,6)	longitudeDECIMAL(9,6)	wikidata idTEXT	sourceTEXT
Abetifi Constituency	constituency of the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana	Ghana parliament constituency	—	—	—	—	—	—	Q4667241	Wikidata (CC0)
Abirem Constituency	constituency of the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana	constituency in the Eastern Region, Ghana	—	—	—	—	—	—	Q4667918	Wikidata (CC0)
Ablekuma Central Constituency	constituency of the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana	Ghana parliament constituency	—	—	—	—	5.593199	-0.245989	Q4668084	Wikidata (CC0)
Ablekuma North Constituency	constituency of the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana	constituency in Ghana	—	—	—	—	—	—	Q4668086	Wikidata (CC0)
Ablekuma North Municipal District	district of Ghana	Municipal District in Ghana	—	—	—	2018	5.583333	-0.266667	Q55566711	Wikidata (CC0)

nameTEXT NOT NULL	area typeTEXT	descriptionTEXT	capitalTEXT	populationBIGINT	area km2DECIMAL(14,2)	inception yearINTEGER	latitudeDECIMAL(9,6)	longitudeDECIMAL(9,6)	wikidata idTEXT	sourceTEXT
example-name-1	example-area_type-1	example-description-1	example-capital-1	10	10	10	10	10	10	example-source-1
example-name-2	example-area_type-2	example-description-2	example-capital-2	20	20	20	20	20	20	example-source-2
example-name-3	example-area_type-3	example-description-3	example-capital-3	30	30	30	30	30	30	example-source-3
example-name-4	example-area_type-4	example-description-4	example-capital-4	40	40	40	40	40	40	example-source-4
example-name-5	example-area_type-5	example-description-5	example-capital-5	50	50	50	50	50	50	example-source-5
example-name-6	example-area_type-6	example-description-6	example-capital-6	60	60	60	60	60	60	example-source-6
example-name-7	example-area_type-7	example-description-7	example-capital-7	70	70	70	70	70	70	example-source-7
example-name-8	example-area_type-8	example-description-8	example-capital-8	80	80	80	80	80	80	example-source-8

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Endpoint

GET connect.apighana.com/api/data/administrative_areas

Auth: X-API-Key header
Pagination: page · limit
Format: JSON
Version: 1.0
Last updated: Sep 18, 2026from the source
Covers: A snapshotas of Sep 18, 2026
Refreshed: monthly
Last checked: Oct 1, 2026looked right
Source: Wikidata

How to cite

Cite this dataset and the organisation its records come from (Wikidata). Datasets are updated, so keep the date you accessed it in the citation. Last updated from the source on Sep 18, 2026.

API Ghana. (2026). Administrative areas (Version 1.0) [Data set, compiled from Wikidata]. Retrieved October 1, 2026, from https://apighana.com/datasets/administrative-areas

Code samples

cURL

curl "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/administrative_areas?page=1&limit=20" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $APIGHANA_KEY"

JavaScript

const response = await fetch(
  "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/administrative_areas?page=1&limit=20",
  { headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.APIGHANA_KEY } },
);

const { data, meta } = await response.json();

Python

import os, requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/administrative_areas",
    headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["APIGHANA_KEY"]},
    params={"page": 1, "limit": 20},
)

rows = response.json()["data"]

Field

Type

name

TEXT NOT NULL

area_type

TEXT

description

TEXT

capital

TEXT

population

BIGINT

area_km2

DECIMAL(14,2)

inception_year

INTEGER

latitude

DECIMAL(9,6)

longitude

DECIMAL(9,6)

wikidata_id

TEXT

source

TEXT

nameTEXT NOT NULL

area typeTEXT

descriptionTEXT

capitalTEXT

populationBIGINT

area km2DECIMAL(14,2)

inception yearINTEGER

latitudeDECIMAL(9,6)

longitudeDECIMAL(9,6)

wikidata idTEXT

sourceTEXT

Abetifi Constituency

constituency of the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana

Ghana parliament constituency

—

Q4667241

Wikidata (CC0)

Abirem Constituency

constituency of the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana

constituency in the Eastern Region, Ghana

—

Q4667918

Wikidata (CC0)

Ablekuma Central Constituency

constituency of the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana

Ghana parliament constituency

—

5.593199

-0.245989

Q4668084

Wikidata (CC0)

Ablekuma North Constituency

constituency of the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana

constituency in Ghana

—

Q4668086

Wikidata (CC0)

Ablekuma North Municipal District

district of Ghana

Municipal District in Ghana

—

2018

5.583333

-0.266667

Q55566711

Wikidata (CC0)

nameTEXT NOT NULL

area typeTEXT

descriptionTEXT

capitalTEXT

populationBIGINT

area km2DECIMAL(14,2)

inception yearINTEGER

latitudeDECIMAL(9,6)

longitudeDECIMAL(9,6)

wikidata idTEXT

sourceTEXT

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How to cite

Cite this dataset and the organisation its records come from (Wikidata). Datasets are updated, so keep the date you accessed it in the citation. Last updated from the source on Sep 18, 2026.

API Ghana. (2026). Administrative areas (Version 1.0) [Data set, compiled from Wikidata]. Retrieved October 1, 2026, from https://apighana.com/datasets/administrative-areas

Code samples

cURL

curl "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/administrative_areas?page=1&limit=20" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $APIGHANA_KEY"

JavaScript

const response = await fetch(
  "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/administrative_areas?page=1&limit=20",
  { headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.APIGHANA_KEY } },
);

const { data, meta } = await response.json();

Python

import os, requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/administrative_areas",
    headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["APIGHANA_KEY"]},
    params={"page": 1, "limit": 20},
)

rows = response.json()["data"]