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27-501: The Upper East Region is located in the north-eastern corner of Ghana and bordered by Burkina Faso to the north and Togo to the east. It lies between longitude 0° and 1° West, and latitudes 10° 30′N and 11°N. The region shares boundaries with Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, Upper West Region to the west, and the Northern Region to the south. The Upper East Region is divided into 15 districts, each headed by

54-424: A Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a personification of both dawn and the cardinal points. East is sometimes abbreviated as E . By convention , the right-hand side of a map is east. This convention has developed from the use of a compass, which places north at the top. However, on maps of planets such as Venus and Uranus which rotate retrograde , the left hand side is east. To go east using

81-504: A 2.8 percentage point reduction in the rural share of the population between 1984 and 2000 and a further 5.3 percent reduction between 2000 and 2010. With only 21 per cent of the population living in urban areas, the region is the least urbanized in Ghana. In fact, together with Upper West , they are the two regions with a less than 20 per cent urban population . Ghanaian citizen by birth, childhood or parenthood constitute 92.5 percent of

108-667: A compass for navigation , one sets a bearing or azimuth of 90°. East is the direction toward which the Earth rotates about its axis , and therefore the general direction from which the Sun appears to rise. The practice of praying towards the East is older than Christianity , but has been adopted by this religion as the Orient was thought of as containing mankind's original home. Hence, Christian churches have been traditionally oriented towards

135-504: A district chief executive. The region plays host to many festivals throughout the year, most of which are either to bring a good planting season or celebrate the harvest. The center of population of the Upper East Region is located in its capital of Bolgatanga . The population is primarily rural (79%) and scattered in dispersed settlements. The rural population was 87.1 percent in 1984 and 84.3% in 2000. There was, thus,

162-706: A few Regional highways such as the R113, R114, R116 and R181, serve the region. The N10 originates from Yemoransa in the Central Region and connects through Kumasi in the Ashanti Region and terminates at Paga in the Upper East Region. The national capital of Accra is also connected to the region by the N2 which terminates in Kulungugu in the Upper East Region. Both these national routes are connected by

189-505: A guide for helmsmen. Prior to the modern three-figure method of describing directions (using the 360° of a circle), the 32-point compass was used for directions on most ships, especially among European crews. The smallest unit of measure recognized was 'one point', 1/32 of a circle, or 11 + 1 ⁄ 4 °. In the mariner's exercise of "boxing the compass", all thirty-two points of the compass are named in clockwise order. This exercise became more significant as navigation improved and

216-410: Is " Quarto di Tramontana verso Greco "; and northeast-by-north is " Quarto di Greco verso Tramontana ". The table below shows how the 32 compass points are named. Each point has an angular range of 11 + 1 ⁄ 4 degrees where the azimuth midpoint is the horizontal angular direction (clockwise from north) of the given compass bearing; minimum is the lower (counterclockwise) angular limit of

243-414: Is "Greco-Levante"; SSE is "Ostro-Scirocco", etc. The quarter winds are expressed with an Italian phrase, " Quarto di X verso Y" ( pronounced [ˈkwarto di X ˈvɛrso Y ] one quarter from X towards Y), or "X al Y" (X to Y) or "X per Y" (X by Y). There are no irregularities to trip over; the closest principal wind always comes first, the more distant one second, for example: north-by-east

270-762: Is the direction where the Sun rises: east comes from Middle English est , from Old English ēast , which itself comes from the Proto-Germanic * aus-to- or * austra- "east, toward the sunrise", from Proto-Indo-European *aus- "to shine," or " dawn ", cognate with Old High German *ōstar "to the east", Latin aurora 'dawn', and Greek ἠώς ēōs 'dawn, east'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin oriens 'east, sunrise' from orior 'to rise, to originate', Greek ανατολή anatolé 'east' from ἀνατέλλω 'to rise' and Hebrew מִזְרָח mizraḥ 'east' from זָרַח zaraḥ 'to rise, to shine'. Ēostre ,

297-649: The Middle Ages (with no obvious connection to the twelve classical compass winds of the ancient Greeks and Romans). The traditional mariner's wind names were expressed in Italian , or more precisely, the Italianate Mediterranean lingua franca common among sailors in the 13th and 14th centuries, which was principally composed of Genoese ( Ligurian ), mixed with Venetian , Sicilian , Provençal , Catalan , Greek , and Arabic terms from around

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324-470: The N11 which links the regional capital of Bolgatanga to Bimpiela, also in the region. The political administration of the region is through the local government system. Under this administration system, the region is divided into 15 MMDA's (made up of 0 Metropolitan, 4 Municipal and 15 Ordinary Assemblies). Each District, Municipal or Metropolitan Assembly, is administered by a Chief Executive, who represents

351-482: The clockwise direction and "CCW" counterclockwise . The final three columns show three common naming conventions: No "by" avoids the use of "by" with fractional points. Colour coding shows whether each of the three naming systems matches the "CW" or "CCW" column. The traditional compass rose of eight winds (and its 16-wind and 32-wind derivatives) was invented by seafarers in the Mediterranean Sea during

378-511: The 32-wind compass rose comes from the eight principal winds, eight half-winds, and sixteen quarter-winds combined, with each compass point at an 11 + 1 ⁄ 4 ° angle from the next. By the middle of the 18th century, the 32-point system had been further extended by using half- and quarter-points to give a total of 128 directions. These fractional points are named by appending, for example, ⁠ 1 / 4 ⁠ east, ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ east, or ⁠ 3 / 4 ⁠ east to

405-551: The Mediterranean basin. This Italianate patois was used to designate the names of the principal winds on the compass rose found in mariners' compasses and portolan charts of the 14th and 15th centuries. The traditional names of the eight principal winds are: Local spelling variations are far more numerous than listed, e.g. Tramutana, Gregale, Grecho, Sirocco, Xaloc, Lebeg, Libezo, Leveche, Mezzodi, Migjorn, Magistro, Mestre, etc. Traditional compass roses will typically have

432-499: The United States Navy to box from north and south toward east and west, with the exception that divisions adjacent to a cardinal or inter-cardinal point are always referred to that point." The Royal Navy used the additional "rule that quarter points were never read from a point beginning and ending with the same letter." Compass roses very rarely named the fractional points and only showed small, unlabelled markers as

459-480: The central government but deriving authority from an Assembly headed by a presiding member elected from among the members themselves. The current list is as follows: Tertiary Institutions 1). Bolgatanga Technical University 2). St. John Bosco's College of Education 3). Gbewaa College of Education , Pusiga 4). C.K.Tedam University of Technology &r Applied Sciences. https://www.modernghana.com/author/AbongoMashoodAjene North-eastern The points of

486-508: The compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths ) used in navigation and cartography . A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions — north , east , south , and west —each separated by 90 degrees , and secondarily divided by four ordinal (intercardinal) directions—northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest—each located halfway between two cardinal directions. Some disciplines such as meteorology and navigation further divide

513-727: The compass point; and maximum is the upper (clockwise) angular limit of the compass point. Navigation texts dating from the Yuan , Ming , and Qing dynasties in China use a 24-pointed compass with named directions. These are based on the twelve Earthly Branches , which also form the basis of the Chinese zodiac. When a single direction is specified, it may be prefaced by the character 單 (meaning single) or 丹 . Headings mid-way in-between are compounds as in English. For instance, 癸子 refers to

540-491: The compass with additional azimuths. Within European tradition, a fully defined compass has 32 "points" (and any finer subdivisions are described in fractions of points). Compass points or compass directions are valuable in that they allow a user to refer to a specific azimuth in a colloquial fashion, without having to compute or remember degrees. The names of the compass point directions follow these rules: In summary,

567-414: The direction halfway between point 子 and point 癸 , or 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 °. This technique is referred to as a double-needle ( 雙針 ) compass. East East is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass . It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth . As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that east

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594-520: The east. After some early exceptions, this tradition of having the altar on the liturgical east has become a part of the church orientation concept liturgical east and west . The Orient is the East , traditionally comprising anything that belongs to the Eastern world , in relation to Europe. In English, it is largely a metonym for, and referring to the same area as, the continent of Asia, divided into

621-524: The half- and quarter-point system increased the number of directions to include in the 'boxing'. Points remained the standard unit until switching to the three-figure degree method. These points were also used for relative measurement, so that an obstacle might be noted as 'two points off the starboard bow', meaning two points clockwise of straight ahead, 22 + 1 ⁄ 2 ° This relative measurement may still be used in shorthand on modern ships, especially for handoffs between outgoing and incoming helmsmen, as

648-399: The initials T, G, L, S, O, L, P, and M on the main points. Portolan charts also colour-coded the compass winds: black for the eight principal winds, green for the eight half-winds, and red for the sixteen quarter-winds. Each half-wind name is simply a combination of the two principal winds that it bisects, with the shortest name usually placed first, for example: NNE is "Greco-Tramontana"; ENE

675-408: The loss of granularity is less significant than the brevity and simplicity of the summary. The table below shows how each of the 128 directions are named. The first two columns give the number of points and degrees clockwise from north. The third gives the equivalent bearing to the nearest degree from north or south towards east or west. The "CW" column gives the fractional-point bearings increasing in

702-404: The name of one of the 32 points. Each of the 96 fractional points can be named in two ways, depending on which of the two adjoining whole points is used, for example, N ⁠ 3 / 4 ⁠ E is equivalent to NbE ⁠ 1 / 4 ⁠ N. Either form is easily understood, but alternative conventions as to correct usage developed in different countries and organisations. "It is the custom in

729-631: The population of the Upper East region. Naturalized Ghanaian citizen constitute 5.3 percent. Upper East Region has a total population of 1,301,221 in the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC) conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service indicate that the Upper East Region representing 4.2 percent of Ghana’s population. The region shows a total of 631,963 males and 669,963 representing 48.5 and 51.5 percentages respectively Three national highways – N2 , N10 , and N11 – and

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