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Accra

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Ac·cra  (kr, -krä)
The capital and largest city of Ghana, in the southeast part of the country on the Gulf of Guinea. Originally the capital of an ancient Ga kingdom, it became an important economic center after the completion in 1923 of a railroad to the mining and agricultural hinterland. Population: 1,660,000.
Accra [əˈkrɑː]
n
(Placename) the capital of Ghana, a port on the Gulf of Guinea: built on the site of three 17th-century trading fortresses founded by the English, Dutch, and Danish. Pop.: 1 446 000 (1998 est.)
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Noun1.AccraAccra - the capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port
capital of Ghana
Ghana, Gold Coast, Republic of Ghana - a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; "Ghana was colonized as the Gold Coast by the British"


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