Greater Accra Region
The Greater Accra Region has the smallest area of Ghana's 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of 3,245 square kilometres. This is 1.4 per cent of the total land area of Ghana.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: region of Ghana with 5,460,000 residents
- Description: administrative region in Ghana
- Also known as: “Accra”, “Accra Capital District”, “Accra District”, “Accra Region”, and “Capital District”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kpone Thermal Power Station I and Michel Camp.
Kpone Thermal Power Station I
Power station
Photo: Abednegokm2002, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kpone Thermal Power Station is a 230 MW gas-fired thermal power station in Ghana.
Michel Camp
Military installation
Michel Camp is the base of the First 1st Battalion of Infantry of the Ghana Army. It is located at Tema in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The First Battalion together with the Second and Fifth Battalions of Infantry make up the Southern Command of the Ghana Army.
Ashaiman Senior High School
School
Ashaiman Senior High School is a coeducational second-cycle institution at Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Ashaiman Senior High School was established in September 1990 with thirty students, two teachers and no non-teaching staff. Ashaiman Senior High School is situated 6 km south of Greater Accra Region.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tema and Ashaiman.
Tema
Photo: Axe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tema is a city on the Ghanaian Coastal Plain. It is 25 kilometres east of Accra, and had a population of 161,612 in 2013. It is the second-largest city in the Greater Accra Region after Accra.
Ashaiman
Town
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Ashaiman is a large town and the capital of the Ashaiman Municipal District in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. According to the 2021 census, the town, along with the district, has a population of 208,060 people. Ashaiman is situated 7 km southwest of Greater Accra Region.
Greater Accra Region
- Location: Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Yue Chinese—“Greater Accra Region” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Nkran punpuni Mantam”
- Akan: “nkran”
- Arabic: “إقليم أكرا الكبرى”
- Arabic: “منطقة أكرا الكبرى”
- Armenian: “Մեծ Աքրա”
- Belarusian: “Вялікая Акра”
- Belarusian: “рэгіён Вялікая Акра”
- Bengali: “গ্রেটার আক্রা অঞ্চল”
- Breton: “Greater Accra”
- Bulgarian: “Голяма Акра”
- Bulgarian: “Регион Голяма Акра”
- Catalan: “Regió de Gran Accra”
- Catalan: “Regió del Gran Accra”
- Cebuano: “Greater Accra Region”
- Chinese: “大阿克拉地区”
- Chinese: “大阿克拉地區”
- Chinese: “大阿克拉大區”
- Czech: “Greater Accra”
- Czech: “Větší Accra”
- Czech: “Větší Akra”
- Dagbani: “Greater Accra Region”
- Danish: “Greater Accra”
- Dutch: “Greater Accra”
- Esperanto: “Grand-Akrao”
- Farefare: “Greater Accra Region”
- Finnish: “Greater Accra”
- Finnish: “Suur-Accra”
- French: “Grand Accra”
- French: “Région du Grand Accra”
- Georgian: “დიდი აკრის რეგიონი”
- German: “GH-AA”
- German: “Greater Accra Region”
- German: “Greater Accra”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Greater Accra Region”
- Greek: “Γκρέιτερ Άκρα”
- Gujarati: “ગ્રેટર એક્રા પ્રદેશ”
- Hausa: “Yankin Greater Accra”
- Hebrew: “אזור אקרה רבתי”
- Hindi: “बृहत्तर एकरा प्रदेश”
- Igbo: “Greater Accra Region”
- Indonesian: “Region Greater Accra”
- Italian: “Grande Accra”
- Italian: “Greater Accra Region”
- Italian: “regione della Grande Accra”
- Italian: “Regione della Grande Accra”
- Japanese: “グレーター・アクラ州”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ರೇಟರ್ ಅಕ್ರಾ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Korean: “그레이터아크라 주”
- Korean: “그레이터아크라주”
- Kurdish: “Herêma Akraya Mezin”
- Kusaal: “Greater Accra Region”
- Latvian: “Lielās Akras reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Didžiosios Akros regionas”
- Malay: “Greater Accra Region”
- Marathi: “ग्रेटर अकरा प्रदेश”
- Mingrelian: “დიდი აკრაშ რეგიონი”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لمنطقة د آكرا لكبيرة”
- Mossi: “Greater Accra Region”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Greater Accra Region”
- Northern Frisian: “Greater Accra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Greater Accra”
- Norwegian: “Greater Accra”
- Persian: “منطقه آکرای بزرگ”
- Polish: “Region Greater Accra”
- Polish: “Region Wielka Akra”
- Polish: “Wielka Akra”
- Portuguese: “Grande Acra”
- Portuguese: “Região da Grande Acra”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Marea Accra”
- Russian: “Большая Аккра”
- Sinhala: “මහා අක්රා කලාපය”
- Slovenian: “GH-AA”
- Slovenian: “Greater Accra Region”
- Slovenian: “Greater Accra”
- South Azerbaijani: “آکرای بزرق اوستانی”
- Southern Dagaare: “Greater Accra Region”
- Spanish: “Gran Accra”
- Spanish: “Gran Acra”
- Spanish: “Región Gran Acra”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Greater Accra”
- Swedish: “Greater Accra”
- Swedish: “Storaccra”
- Tamil: “கிரேட்டர் ஆசிரா பகுதி”
- Tatar: “Зур Аккра”
- Telugu: “గ్రేటర్ అక్రా ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “เขตเซ้าธ์ บานัต”
- Turkish: “Büyük Accra Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Büyük Akra Bölgesi”
- Twi: “Nkran Mantam”
- Ukrainian: “Велика Аккра”
- Urdu: “عظیم اکرا ریجن”
- Urdu: “عظیم اکرا علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Greater Accra”
- Wu Chinese: “大阿克拉地区”
- Yoruba: “Greater Accra Region”
- Yue Chinese: “大阿克拉大區”
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