The District is located in the North-Eastern Northern Region, roughly between latitudes 9°30’ and 10°30’ North and longitudes 0° and 45’West. Karaga is the administrative capital.
It shares boundaries with four districts in the northern region, West and East Mamprusi to the North, Savelugu/Nanton to the West and Gushegu (the mother district) to the South and east Karaga the district capital is 24km from Gushegu and 94km from Tamale, the Regional Capital.
The Ghana School Feeding Programme is still bedevilled with numerous challenges despite years of implementation, especially in the Karaga District of the Northern Region.
The Karaga District Assembly has partnered the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) to provide certain five communities with borehole facilities.
The Karaga District Assembly in the Northern Region is systematically making ends with the implementation of the Northern Region Small Towns Water and Sanitation Project (NORST) as the programme has given the platform to extend water facilities to hamlets and hinterlands.