Ghanaian Coastal Plain
Greater Accra Region
Accra Metropolitan District

Accra

Accra is the capital city of . Accra has a mix of 19th-century colonial architecture, modern skyscrapers and apartment blocks, and dusty shanty towns.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Accra Sports Stadium and Black Star Square.

Stadium
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The , formerly named the Ohene Djan Stadium, is a multi-use stadium located in Accra, Ghana, mostly used for association football matches. It is also used for rugby union.

Square
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, also known as Independence Square, is a public square in Accra, Ghana, bordered by the and the .

Museum
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The National Museum, also known as the , is a museum located in Accra, . Established in 1957, it is the largest and oldest of the six museums under the administration of the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Osu and Adabraka.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in central Accra, , . It is located about 3 kilometres east of the central business district, and is locally known as the "West End" of Accra.

Suburb
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is a town in the Korle-Klottey Municipal District, located in the of Ghana. It was the first affluent neighborhood in Ghana during the British era.

Suburb
is a town in the Accra Metropolitan District, a district of the of and noted for the location of Joy FM and Accra Technical Training Center, among other institutions.

Accra

Latitude
5.5571° or 5° 33′ 26″ north
Longitude
-0.2012° or 0° 12′ 5″ west
Population
2,390,000
Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)
IATA airport code
ACC
United Nations Location Code
GH ACC
Open location code
6CQXHQ4X+RG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565080
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2306104
Wiki­data ID
Q3761
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Accra” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Accra”
  • Akan: “Nkran”
  • Albanian: “Akra”
  • Amharic: “አክራ”
  • Arabic: “أكرا”
  • Arabic: “اكرا”
  • Arabic: “عاصمة غانا”
  • Aragonese: “Accra”
  • Armenian: “Ակրա”
  • Armenian: “Աքրա”
  • Arpitan: “Accra”
  • Asturian: “Accra”
  • Awadhi: “अक्रा”
  • Azerbaijani: “Akkra”
  • Balinese: “Accra”
  • Bambara: “Akra”
  • Bashkir: “Аккра”
  • Basque: “Akkra”
  • Belarusian: “Акра”
  • Bengali: “আক্রা”
  • Bosnian: “Accra”
  • Breton: “Accra”
  • Bulgarian: “Акра”
  • Burmese: “အက်ခရာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Accra”
  • Cebuano: “Accra”
  • Cebuano: “Acra”
  • Central Bikol: “Accra”
  • Central Kanuri: “Accra”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەکرا”
  • Chavacano: “Acra”
  • Chechen: “Аккра”
  • Chinese: “Accra”
  • Chinese: “阿克拉”
  • Chuvash: “Аккра”
  • Cornish: “Accra”
  • Croatian: “Accra”
  • Czech: “Accra”
  • Czech: “Akkra”
  • Dagbani: “Akra”
  • Dagbani: “Ankara”
  • Dagbani: “Baŋ ʒia”
  • Danish: “Accra”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Akra”
  • Dutch: “Accra”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اكرا”
  • Esperanto: “Akrao”
  • Esperanto: “Akro”
  • Estonian: “Accra”
  • Ewe: “Accra”
  • Fanti: “Nkran Kuropɔn Mantɔw”
  • Farefare: “Ankara”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Accra”
  • Finnish: “Accra”
  • French: “Accra”
  • Fulah: “Akra”
  • Galician: “Accra”
  • Georgian: “აკრა”
  • German: “Accra”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Accra”
  • Greek: “΄Aκκρα”
  • Greek: “Άκκρα”
  • Guarani: “Akra”
  • Gujarati: “અક્રા”
  • Haitian: “Akra”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Accra”
  • Hausa: “Accra”
  • Hebrew: “אקרה”
  • Hindi: “अकरा”
  • Hindi: “अक्रा”
  • Hindi: “एकरा”
  • Hungarian: “Accra”
  • Icelandic: “Akkra”
  • Ido: “Accra”
  • Igbo: “Accra”
  • Inari Sami: “Accra”
  • Indonesian: “Accra”
  • Interlingua: “Accra”
  • Interlingue: “Accra”
  • Irish: “Accra”
  • Italian: “Accra”
  • Japanese: “アクラ”
  • Javanese: “Accra”
  • Kabiyè: “Akra”
  • Kabyle: “Akra”
  • Kannada: “ಅಕ್ಕ್ರಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಆಕ್ರಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Akkra”
  • Kazakh: “Аккра”
  • Kikuyu: “Accra”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Accra”
  • Kirghiz: “Аккра”
  • Komering: “Accra”
  • Kongo: “Accra”
  • Korean: “아크라”
  • Kotava: “Accra”
  • Kurdish: “Akra”
  • Kusaal: “Accra”
  • Kusaal: “Ankara”
  • Latin: “Acara Magna”
  • Latin: “Accara Magna”
  • Latvian: “Akra”
  • Ligurian: “Accra”
  • Limburgan: “Accra”
  • Lingala: “Accra”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Accra”
  • Lithuanian: “Akra”
  • Livvi: “Akkra”
  • Lombard: “Accra”
  • Luxembourgish: “Accra”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Accra”
  • Macedonian: “Акра”
  • Malagasy: “Accra”
  • Malay: “Accra”
  • Malayalam: “അക്ര”
  • Marathi: “आक्रा”
  • Mazanderani: “آکرا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Accra”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Accra”
  • Minangkabau: “Accra”
  • Mingrelian: “აკრა”
  • Moksha: “Аккра”
  • Mongolian: “Аккра”
  • Mongolian: “Акра”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “آكرا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أكرا”
  • Mossi: “Accra”
  • Mossi: “Akra”
  • Mossi: “Greater Accra”
  • N'Ko: “ߊߞߙߊ߫”
  • Nauru: “Accra”
  • Northern Frisian: “Accra”
  • Northern Sami: “Accra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Accra”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Accra”
  • Norwegian: “Accra”
  • Novial: “Akra”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Accra”
  • Oriya: “ଆକ୍ରା”
  • Ossetian: “Аккрæ”
  • Pampanga: “Accra”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਕਰਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Accra”
  • Persian: “آکرا”
  • Piemontese: “Accra”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Akra”
  • Polish: “Akra”
  • Portuguese: “Acra”
  • Pushto: “آکرا”
  • Quechua: “Accra”
  • Romanian: “Accra”
  • Russian: “Аккра”
  • Samogitian: “Akra”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱠᱠᱨᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Accra”
  • Scots: “Accra”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Accra”
  • Serbian: “Акра”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Accra”
  • Shona: “Accra”
  • Silesian: “Akra”
  • Sindhi: “اڪرا”
  • Sinhala: “අක්‍රා”
  • Sinhala: “ඇක්‍රා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Accra”
  • Slovak: “Akkra”
  • Slovenian: “Accra”
  • Slovenian: “Akra”
  • Somali: “Akara”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آکرا”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Accra”
  • Southern Sotho: “Accra”
  • Spanish: “Accra”
  • Spanish: “Acra”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Accra”
  • Sundanese: “Accra”
  • Swahili: “Accra”
  • Swedish: “Accra”
  • Swiss German: “Accra”
  • Tagalog: “Accra”
  • Tajik: “Аккра”
  • Talysh: “Akkra”
  • Tamil: “அக்ரா”
  • Tatar: “Аккра”
  • Telugu: “ఆక్రా”
  • Thai: “อักกรา”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ཁ་ར།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Accra”
  • Turkish: “Accra”
  • Turkish: “Akra”
  • Turkmen: “Akkra”
  • Turkmen: “Akra”
  • Twi: “Nkran”
  • Tyap: “Accra”
  • Tyap: “A̱ki̱ra”
  • Udmurt: “Аккра”
  • Ukrainian: “Аккра”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Accra”
  • Urdu: “اکرا”
  • Uzbek: “Akkra”
  • Venetian: “Accra”
  • Veps: “Akkr”
  • Vietnamese: “Accra”
  • Volapük: “Accra”
  • Võro: “Accra”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Accra”
  • Welsh: “Accra”
  • Western Frisian: “Accra”
  • Western Frisian: “Akkra”
  • Western Mari: “Аккра”
  • Western Panjabi: “اکرا”
  • Western Panjabi: “عکرہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿克拉”
  • Xhosa: “I-Accra”
  • Yiddish: “אקרא”
  • Yoruba: “Aakrá”
  • Yoruba: “Accra”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿克拉”
  • Zulu: “i-Accra”
  • “Accra”
  • “Akra”

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