Madina
Adenta East is a town in Adenta District in the Greater Accra Region of the Ghanaian Coastal Plain. Adenta East was home to about 44,000 people in 2012.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 140,000 residents
- Description: District Capital in Ghana
- Also known as: “Madina, Ghana” and “Medina Estates”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Presbyterian Boys’ Senior High School and West Africa Senior High School.
Presbyterian Boys’ Senior High School
School
Photo: Samaddo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School is a secondary boarding school for boys. It is located in Legon, Accra, Ghana. It was founded in 1938, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast.
West Africa Senior High School
School
West Africa Senior High School is a second-cycle institution located at Adenta in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The school is a government assisted, mixed day and non-denominational institution providing a three-year senior high school education.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Adenta East and Adenta.
Adenta East
Adenta East is a town in Adenta District in the Greater Accra Region of the Ghanaian Coastal Plain. Adenta East was home to about 44,000 people in 2012.Adenta
Town
Adenta is a small town and is the capital of Adenta Municipal district, a district in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The town is known for the West Africa Secondary School.
Legon
Town
Photo: Rtevels, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Legon, a suburb of the Ghanaian city Accra, is situated about 12 kilometres north-east of the city center in the Ayawaso West Municipal District, a district in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Legon is situated 5 km southwest of Madina.
Madina
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Ga East Municipal Assembly, Greater Accra Region, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
5.6865° or 5° 41′ 11″ northLongitude
-0.1677° or 0° 10′ 4″ westPopulation
140,000Elevation
86 metres (282 feet)United Nations Location Code
GH MADOpen location code
6CQXMRPJ+HWOpenStreetMap ID
node 4509337287OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Urdu—“Madina” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Madina, Gaana”
- Arabic: “المدينة”
- Catalan: “Madina”
- Cebuano: “Medina Estates”
- Croatian: “Madina”
- Dagbani: “Medina”
- Dutch: “Madina”
- Esperanto: “Madina”
- French: “Madina”
- German: “Adjen Kotoku”
- German: “Madina”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Madina, Ghana”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Madina”
- Hausa: “Madina”
- Irish: “Madina”
- Italian: “Madina”
- Japanese: “マディナ”
- Korean: “마디나”
- Moksha: “Мадина”
- Polish: “Madina”
- Portuguese: “Madina”
- Spanish: “Madina”
- Swahili: “Madina, Ghana”
- Swahili: “Madina”
- Swedish: “Madina”
- Turkish: “Madina”
- Urdu: “مدینہ، گھانا”
- Urdu: “مدینہ”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Madina”. Photo: Pupjosh, CC BY-SA 4.0.