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1874 – British capture Accra. 1876 – Capital of British Gold Coast relocated to Accra from Cape Coast. [6] 1883 – N. Walwin Holm photography studio established. [7]
Shortly after declaring the coastal area a colony, the British moved the colonial capital from Cape Coast to the former Danish castle at Christiansborg in Accra. [75] [80] Map from 1896 of the British Gold Coast Colony Map of the Gold Coast Colony, the Ashanti Colony, the Northern Territories and the mandate territory of British Togoland
This territory of 199.4 km 2 contained 1,782,150 inhabitants at the 2021 census, [6] and serves as the capital of Ghana, while the district under the jurisdiction of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly proper (20.4 km 2) is distinguished from the rest of the capital as the "City of Accra". [7]
Scotland, United Kingdom: c 872 1472 Absorbed into Scotland. Scone, near Perth: Scotland, Kingdom of: United Kingdom: 846 1452 moved to Edinburgh: Edinburgh: Scotland, Kingdom of: United Kingdom: 1452 1707 Scotland was united with England under one monarch in 1603. Edinburgh remains the capital of Scotland within the United Kingdom. Machynlleth ...
Victoriaborg is a neighbourhood of Accra, the capital of Ghana.Formed in the late nineteenth century as an exclusive European residential neighborhood, Victoriaborg was located to the east of Accra's city limits of the time, behind cliffs where there was reported to "always be a breeze". [1]
Lagos was the capital from 1914 to 1991. Accra ... United Kingdom: Europe: Prior to the Acts of Union in 1707, London was the capital of England only; ...
Obock was the first capital of the Territoire d'Obock, but since there was little water there, in 1881 the colonial administration made the city of Djibouti its new center. Dominica: Roseau: "Reed" in French. Portsmouth (1765–1768): Named after Portsmouth, United Kingdom. Dominican Republic:
Pitcairn Islands (United Kingdom) Adamstown: 4.6 1.8 220 Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom) Jamestown: 3.6 1.4 221 Saint Barthélemy : Gustavia: 3.4 1.3 222 United States Virgin Islands (United States) Charlotte Amalie: 3.14 1.213 223 Guam (United States) Hagåtña: 3 1.15 224 Falkland Islands (United Kingdom) Stanley ...