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The word Accra is derived from the Akan word Nkran meaning "ants", a reference to the numerous anthills seen in the countryside around Accra. [11] [self-published source?] The name specifically refers to soldier ants, and was applied to both the town and people by the Twi speakers.
The name Ghana comes from ... is a variety of West African Pidgin English spoken in Accra and in the southern ... The meanings of the motifs may be categorised ...
A AATUF All-African Trade Union Federation ABU African Boxing Union ACDC Army Central Defence Committee ACDR Association of Committees for the Defence of the Revolution ACI African Culture Institute ACID Amansuri Conservation and Integrated Development ACP African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States ACP Action Congress Party ACP Assistant Commissioner of Police ADB African Development Bank ...
Islamic Republic of Pakistan (official, English), Federation of Pakistan (alternate official name, English), Dominion of Pakistan (historic official name, English), West Pakistan (common and later official name for the area now covering Pakistan, used when discussing the polity before the unilateral-secession of East Bengal/Bangladesh), Meluhha ...
A government sign in English in Accra. Ghana is a multilingual country in which about eighty languages are spoken. [7] Of these, English, which was inherited from the colonial era, is the official language and lingua franca. [8] [9] Of the languages indigenous to Ghana, Akan is the most widely spoken in the south. [10]
The Ga sub-group of the Ga-Dangme people is the historical population of Accra. They form the largest ethnic sub-group in the Greater Accra Region, with 18.9% of the population. [11] [circular reference] The Ga peoples were organized into six independent towns (Accra (Ga Mashie), Osu, La, Teshie, Nungua, and Tema). Each town had a stool, which ...
Pest is a Slavic name meaning "furnace, oven, cove" (cf. Rus. Печь pech'). [35] Pozsony (1536–1848): See Bratislava below. Buda (1265–1536): The name Buda takes its name from the name of the ruler Bleda the Hun, whose name is also Buda in Hungarian. The Roman name for Buda was Aquincum ("aqua" means "water" in Latin.)
Downtown Accra is the site of the government ministries, and the districts of Victoriaborg, West Ridge, and East Ridge.. Surrounding downtown are the neighbourhoods of the Adabraka, Asylum Down, Jamestown, Swalaba, North Ridge, Tudu and Christiansborg/Osu.