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Accra is the Greater Accra Region 's economic and administrative hub, and serves as the anchor of the larger Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), [ 9] which is inhabited by about 4 million people, making it the thirteenth-largest metropolitan area in Africa.
Ghana. / 5.55500°N 0.19250°W / 5.55500; -0.19250. Ghana, [ a] officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It lies adjacent to the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing a border with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and Togo in the east.
Ghana is a West African country in Africa, along the Gulf of Guinea . Ghana encompasses plains, low hills, rivers, Lake Volta, the world's largest artificial lake, Dodi Island and Bobowasi Island on the south Atlantic Ocean coast of Ghana. Ghana can be divided into four different geographical ecoregions.
Agbogbloshie is a nickname of a commercial district on the Korle Lagoon of the Odaw River, near the center of Accra, Ghana 's capital city in the Greater Accra region. [ 1] Near the slum called "Old Fadama", the Agbogbloshie site became known as a destination for externally generated automobile and electronic scrap collected from mostly the ...
Jamestown/Usshertown, Accra. Located directly east of the Korle Lagoon, Jamestown and Usshertown are the oldest districts of Accra, Ghana [ 1] and emerged as communities around the 17th century British James Fort and Dutch Ussher Fort on the Gulf of Guinea coast. [ 2][ 3] These districts were developed at the end of the 19th century, and ...
The regions of Ghana are the first level of subnational government administration within the Republic of Ghana. As of 2020, there are 16 regions, [ 1] which are further divided for administrative purposes into 260 local metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (or MMDA's) .
Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in 2008 district boundaries. The Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) is a metropolitan region centered in Ghana's capital Accra. With around five million inhabitants, the metropolitan area is one of the 90 largest agglomerations in the world. [ 1] The GAMA is largely continuous, but not identical with the ...
Korle Lagoon. Coordinates: 5°32′04″N 0°13′11″W. The lagoon in 2019. The lagoon (top centre) from the air, seen in 2005. The Korle Lagoon is a body of water in Accra, the capital of Ghana. [1] Lying immediately to the west of the city centre, it has played an important role in the city's history. In the 1990s, it became known for its ...