Adabraka | |
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  Adabraka | |
| Coordinates: 5°33′47″N00°12′42″W / 5.56306°N 0.21167°W | |
| Country |  Ghana |
| Region | Greater Accra Region |
| District | Accra Metropolitan |
| Time zone | GMT |
| • Summer (DST) | GMT |
Adabraka is a town in the Korley Klottey Municipal Assembly, [1] a Municipality of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. [2] [3] It was the first affluent neighborhood in Ghana during the British era. [4]
Adabraka was once known for the O'Reilly Senior High School. [5] [6] The school is a second cycle institution that relocated in 2010 to Okpoi Gonno at Teshie-Nungua. [7] [8] [9]
The town hosts four tertiary institutions; the African University College of Communication (AUCC), The Ghana Institute of Languages(GIL), the Catholic Institute of Business and Technology(CIBT), and the University of Ghana Accra City Campus.
The Accra Psychiatry Hospital is located in Adabraka. Adabraka also has polyclinic called Adabraka Polyclinic, which is just opposite the Accra Psychiatry Hospital. [10] The Accra Rehabilitation Centre is also located in Adabraka, along the Barnes Road. [11]
Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, located on the southern coast at the Gulf of Guinea, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2021 census, the Accra Metropolitan District, 20.4 km2 (7.9 sq mi), had a population of 284,124 inhabitants, and the larger Greater Accra Region, 3,245 km2 (1,253 sq mi), had a population of 5,455,692 inhabitants. In common usage, the name "Accra" often refers to the territory of the Accra Metropolitan District as it existed before 2008, when it covered 199.4 km2 (77.0 sq mi). This territory has since been split into 13 local government districts: 12 independent municipal districts and the reduced Accra Metropolitan District (20.4 km2), which is the only district within the capital to be granted city status. This territory of 199.4 km2 contained 1,782,150 inhabitants at the 2021 census, and serves as the capital of Ghana, while the district under the jurisdiction of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly proper (20.4 km2) is distinguished from the rest of the capital as the "City of Accra".
The Greater Accra Region has the smallest area of Ghana's 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of 3,245 square kilometres. This is 1.4 per cent of the total land area of Ghana. It is the most populated region, with a population of 5,455,692 in 2021, accounting for 17.7 per cent of Ghana's total population.
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Kaneshie is a suburb in the Accra Metropolitan district, a district of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The name was derived from a word in the Ga-Adangbe, that is "Kane Shie Shie", meaning "under the lamp" referring to its beginnings as a night market.
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