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Accra

Accra

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The capital and largest city of Ghana on the Atlantic coast
  • proper noun
: Accra
  • Their next stop would be Accra, Ghana, about 2,000 miles down Africa's Gold Coast.
  • Accra, Ghana
  • Greater Accra
  • Accra Metropolitan

And I went to the offices, to the headquarters of the AFCTA in Accra.

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Examples

  • The woman at the Kaneshie Polyclinic in suburban Accra, Ghana, was in her mid-forties.

    Academic text (1998)

  • The Dangme people live in the eastern Accra plain of southern Ghana in West Africa.

    Academic text (1991)

  • I am at a restaurant in Accra.

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  • In 1994, the first private radio station, Radio Eye, went on the air in Accra without official consent.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Driving through Accra, there are obvious signs of Ghana's new market economy.

    Academic text (2001)

  • His firm, IJ Associates, has offices in London, New York and Accra, with projects in the US, the UK, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

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  • Twenty of us (eighteen students, my professor, and the driver) had gone to the Accra market for shopping.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Over 62 industrial-commercial firms had shut down in Greater Accra alone during 1987-91.

    Academic text (1991)

  • In 1988, most garment factories in Accra were closed due to cheap imports and second-hand clothing.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The journey kicks off in the capital, Accra, then heads to Ghana's remote northern region.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Accra comes from a local Ga word Nkran, which means 'ants' because the area had many anthills and Portuguese sailors later wrote the name as Accra. So the city's name remembers those anthills and the local language.