Home

World Capital Cities

Abu Dhabi City Profile - Abuja City Profile - Accra City Profile - Addis Ababa City Profile - Al-Manámah ( Manama ) City Profile - Algiers City Profile - Amman City Profile - Amsterdam City Profile - Ankara City Profile - Antananarivo City Profile - Ashgabat City Profile - Asmara City Profile - Astana City Profile - Asunción City Profile -  Athens City Profile - Baghdad City Profile - Baku City Profile - Bandar Seri Begawan City Profile - Bangkok City Profile - Bangui City Profile - Banjul City Profile - Beijing City Profile - Belgrade City Profile - Belmopan City Profile - Bern City Profile - Berlin City Profile - Bishkek City Profile - Bissau City Profile -Bogota City Profile - Brasilia City Profile - Bratislava City Profile - Brazzaville City Profile - Brussels City Profile - Bucharest City Profile - Budapest City Profile - Buenos Aires City Profile - Bujumbura City Profile - Cairo City Profile- Canberra City Profile - Caracas City Profile - Chisinau City Profile - Colombo City Profile - Conakry City Profile - Copenhagen City Profile - Dakar City Profile - Damascus City Profile - Dhaka City Profile - Djibouti City Profile - Dodoma City Profile - Doha City Profile - Dublin City Profile - Dushanbe City Profile - Gaborone City Profile - City Profile General Resources - Guatemala City City Profile - Hanoi City Profile - Harare City Profile - Havana City Profile - Helsinki City Profile - Islamabad City Profile - Jakarta City Profile - Kabul City Profile - Kampala City Profile - Kathmandu City Profile - Khartoum City Profile - Kiev City Profile - Kigali City Profile - Kingston City Profile - Kinshasa City Profile - Kuala Lumpur City Profile - Kuwait City Profile - La Paz City Profile - Libreville City Profile - Lilongwe City Profile - Lima City Profile - Lisbon City Profile - Ljubljana City Profile - London City Profile - Luanda City Profile - Madrid City Profile - Malabo City Profile - Managua City Profile -  Manila City Profile - Maputo City Profile - Maseru City Profile - Mexico City City Profile - Minsk City Profile - Monrovia City Profile - Montevideo City Profile - Moscow City Profile - Muscat City Profile - Nairobi City Profile - Nassau City Profile - New Delhi City Profile - N'Djamena City Profile -Niamey City Profile - Nicosia City Profile - Nouakchott City Profile - Oslo City Profile - Ottawa City Profile - Ouagadougou City Profile - Panama City City Profile - Paris City Profile - Phnom Penh City Profile - Port Louis City Profile - Port Moresby City Profile - Port-au-Prince City Profile - Porto-Novo City Profile - Prague City Profile - Praia City Profile - Pyongyang City Profile - Quito City Profile - Rabat City Profile - Rangoon City Profile - Reykjavik City Profile - Riga City Profile - Rome City Profile - San José City Profile - San Salvador City Profile - Santiago City Profile - Santo Domingo City Profile - Sarajevo City Profile - Skopje City Profile - Sucre City Profile - Suva City Profile - Tallinn City Profile - Tashkent City Profile - Tbilisi City Profile - Tegucigalpa City Profile - Thimphu City Profile - Tirana City Profile - Tokyo City Profile - Tripoli City Profile - Tunis City Profile - Ulaan Baatar City Profile - Vaduz City Profile - Valletta City Profile - Vienna City Profile - Vientiane City Profile - Vilnius City Profile - Warsaw City Profile -Washington D.C. City Profile - Wellington City Profile - Windhoek City Profile - Yaoundé City Profile - Yerevan City Profile - Zagreb City Profile `

Non-Capital world Cities

Alexandria City Profile - Barcelona City Profile - Belfast City Profile - Birmingham City Profile - Bombay ( Mumbai ) City Profile - Calcutta City Profile - Calgary City Profile - Cologne City Profile - Edinburgh City Profile - Florence City Profile - Hamburg City Profile - Hong Kong City Profile - Istanbul City Profile -  Liverpool City Profile - Marseille City Profile - Mecca City Profile - Milan City Profile - Munich City Profile - Naples City Profile - Nice City Profile -  Osaka City Profile - Palermo City Profile - Rio de Janeiro City Profile - Rotterdam City Profile - Sao Paulo City Profile - St. Petersburg City Profile - Shanghai City Profile - Torino ( Turin ) City Profile -  Venice City Profile - Yokohama City Profile

Go to Ghana Social Studies - To Ghana History

Accra __ Encyclopedic article with many links to related materials. - From Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accra

Accra, Ghana __ A brief look at the history of the city. - From thinkquest.org - http://library.thinkquest.org/16645/the_people/cw_accra.shtml

Accra Photos __ Here are a dozen galleries of click-to-enlarge photos pf Accra along with a few hundred pictures of Accra as individual posts. - illustrated - From pbase.com - http://search.pbase.com/search?q=Accra

Accra pictures __ You will find several pages of excellent click-to-enlarge pictures of Accra, Ghana. - illustrated - From Yahoo.com - http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-485085-accra_vacations-i-action-pictures-tgphotoid-575126 
 
Accra Transportation __ "Getting around Accra, Ghana. Walking, driving, airport transport, taxi, and Accra public transportation tips. Get real advice from real travelers and Accra ..." - illustrated - From virtualtourist.com/ - http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Africa/Ghana/Greater_Accra_Region/Accra-2039506/Transportation-Accra-BR-1.html 

AllRefer.com - Accra, Ghana (Ghanan Political Geography) __ A 'social studies' type overview of Accra. "Accra[ukrA´, ak´ru]...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." - From AllRefer.com - http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/A/Accra.html

Ghana: Cities->Accra __ A good overview of the city and its history. "The dusty roads that lead into Central Accra are lined with open-fronted shacks and stands selling everything from cooked food, trousers and haircuts, electrical goods, or cast iron gates. Most have colourful headboards advertising the name of the shop." You will find lifestyle vignettes such as that along with maps and photos. - illustrated - From ghanaweb.com - http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/geography/accra.php

Greater Accra Photos __ Galleries of click-to-enlarge photos of Accra. - illustrated - From trekearth.com - http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Africa/Ghana/South/Greater_Accra/

Greater Accra Region __ "Accra stretches along the Atlantic Coast and north into the interior. It was originally built around the port. Its architecture ranges from large and elegant 19th Century colonial buildings to skyscrapers and apartment blocks made of concrete, glass and steel in the 1970s." A good overview of the city of Accra including history, culture, economy and more. - illustrated - From ghanaweb.com - http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/geography/accra.php 
 
 

National Museum Accra, Ghana __ A brief overview of the museum and its history. There are no online exhibits. - From Ghana Museums and Monuments Board - http://www.geocities.com/gmmbacc/ 

Travel in Accra Ghana History __ "Accra was founded in the 15th century by Ga settlers, who began a profitable trade with the Portuguese in the 16th century. A thriving trade in slaves, gold, and palm oil followed into the next few centuries, and the Ga's trading partners expanded to include the Danish, Dutch, and the British." You will find a good historical review. - illustrated - From africatravelling.net - http://www.africatravelling.net/ghana/accra/accra_history.htm 

Urban Cultivation in Accra __ Learn the pros and cons of urban farming in the city of Accra - cityfarmer.org - http://www.cityfarmer.org/AccraRaymond.html 

Web archaeolink.com

Top of Page