Bimbilla

Bimbilla is the capital of the Nanumba North Municipality in the Northern Region of Ghana, in the east of the region near the Oti River, and it is the seat of the Nanung Traditional Council under its paramount chief. Oral tradition says it was founded in the mid-thirteenth century by Naa Mantambo, a son of Na Gbewa, as the capital of the Nanung Kingdom, and that its name means Small Bing in Dagbani, after the town now called Fada N Gourma in Burkina Faso. German colonial troops burned the town on 29 November 1896 before the battle of Adibo. The 2021 census counted 188,680 people in the whole municipality. Bimbilla has the E.P. College of Education, founded in 1962, a boarding senior high school, a vocational school and Bimbilla Hospital, named the best performing secondary level hospital in the Northern Region in 2022.