Accra
Accra is the capital city of Ghana. Accra has a mix of 19th-century colonial architecture, modern skyscrapers and apartment blocks, and dusty shanty towns. Independence Arch…Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Notable Places in the Area
Accra Sports Stadium
Photo: Ben Sutherland, CC BY 2.0.
The Accra Sports Stadium, formerly named the Ohene Djan Stadium, is a multi-use stadium located in Accra, Ghana, mostly used for association football matches.
National Museum of Ghana
Photo: Sathyan.velumani, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Museum of Ghana is in the Ghanaian capital, Accra.
Black Star Square
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Black Star Square, also known as Independence Square, is a public square in Accra, Ghana, bordered by the Accra Sports Stadium and the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park.
Localities in the Area
Adabraka
Photo: Kwameghana, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Adabraka is a town in the Korley Klottey Municipal Assembly, a Municipality of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.
Kokomlemle
Kokomlemle is a town in the Accra Metropolitan District, a district of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana and noted for the location of Joy FM and Accra Technical Training Center, among other institutions.Osu
Photo: Warmglow, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Located about 3 kilometres east of the central business district, Osu is a neighborhood in central Accra, Ghana.
Accra
- Type: City with 2,390,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Ghana
- Categories: port settlement, big city, capital city, million city and locality
- Location: Accra Metropolitan District, Greater Accra Region, Ghanaian Coastal Plain, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
5.5571° or 5° 33' 26" northLongitude
-0.2012° or 0° 12' 5" westPopulation
2,390,000Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)IATA airport code
ACCUnited Nations Location Code
GH ACCOpen Location Code
6CQXHQ4X+RGOpenStreetMap ID
node 27565080OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2306104Wikidata ID
Q3761Accra Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Akra
- Afar: Akkra
- Afrikaans: Accra
- Akan: Nkran
- Albanian: Akra
- Amharic: አክራ
- Arabic: Accra
- Arabic: أكرا
- Arabic: اكرا
- Arabic: عاصمة غانا
- Aragonese: Accra
- Armenian: Ակրա
- Armenian: Աքրա
- Arpitan: Accra
- Asturian: Accra
- Avaric: 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 Kurdish: ئاکرا
- 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
- 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
- Kongo: Accra
- Korean: 아크라
- Kotava: Accra
- Kurdish: Akra
- 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
- Mingrelian: აკრა
- Moksha: Аккра
- Mongolian: Аккра
- Mongolian: Акра
- Moroccan Arabic: آكرا
- Moroccan Arabic: أكرا
- Mossi: Accra
- Mossi: Greater Accra
- N'Ko: ߊߞߙߊ߫
- Nauru: Accra
- Northern Frisian: Accra
- Norwegian: Accra
- Norwegian Bokmål: Accra
- Norwegian Nynorsk: 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
- Sinhala: අක්රා
- Sinhala: ඇක්රා
- Slovak: Akkra
- Slovenian: Akra
- Somali: Akara
- South Azerbaijani: آکرا
- Spanish: Accra
- Spanish: Acra
- Sranan Tongo: Accra
- Sundanese: Accra
- Swahili: Accra
- Swedish: Accra
- Swiss German: Accra
- Tagalog: Accra
- Tajik: Аккра
- Tamil: அக்ரா
- Tatar: Аккра
- Telugu: ఆక్రా
- Thai: อักกรา
- Tibetan: ཨ་ཁ་ར།
- Tosk Albanian: Accra
- Turkish: Accra
- Turkish: Akra
- Turkmen: Akra
- Twi: Nkran
- 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
Other Places Named Accra
In the Area
- RidgeSuburb
- Accra CentralSuburb
- North RidgeSuburb
- Asylum DownSuburb
- Ringway EstatesSuburb
- ChristiansborgHamlet
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