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Accra , city (1984 pop. 867,459), capital of Ghana, a port on the Gulf of Guinea. It is Ghana's largest city and its administrative, communications, and economic center. The chief manufactures are processed food, beverages, timber and plywood, textiles, clothing, chemicals, and printed materials. A transportation hub, Accra is linked by road and rail with Kumasi , in the interior, and with Tema , a major seaport. The site of present-day Accra was originally comprised of several small villages of a Ga kingdom. It developed into a sizable town around British and Dutch forts built in the 17th... Read more

Accra
Accra, Ghana Derived from the Akan word nkran ‘ant’, a reference to the black ants common in the area. Developed...17th century; these grew into towns. The Danes (1850) and the Dutch (1872) ceded their possessions to the British and left. Accra replaced Cape Coast as the capital of the British Gold ... Read more

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