HIGHLIGHTS ABOUT Accra

Accra, capital and biggest city of Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean). The city lies halfway on a precipice, 25 to 40 feet (8 to 12 meters) high, and spreads northward over the undulating Accra fields. The region's defenselessness to blaming is the reason for incidental seismic tremors. 

At the point when the Portuguese initially chose the shoreline of what is currently Ghana in 1482, the present site of Accra was involved by a few towns of the Ga clan, governed from a parent settlement, Ayaso (Ayawaso), situated around 15 miles (24 km) north. Somewhere in the range of 1650 and 1680 the Europeans constructed three sustained exchanging posts—Fort James (English), Fort Crevecoeur (Dutch), and Christiansborg Castle (Danish)— along the coast in the region. While these European posts were being developed, Ayaso was decimated in an inborn war, and its populace, together with that of the other significant Ga towns on the Accra fields, was attracted to the coast by the possibility of beneficial exchange with the Europeans. Thus, three beach front towns—Osu (Christiansborg), Dutch Accra (later called Ussher Town), and James Town—jumped up, turning into the cores of what was to be Accra. The name Accra itself is a debasement of the Akan word nkran. It alludes to the dark ants that possess large amounts of the region. It came to be applied to the occupants of this piece of the Accra fields. 

Accra developed into a prosperous exchanging focus. The Danes and the Dutch left the area in 1850 and 1872, separately, and in 1877 Accra turned into the capital of the British Gold Coast province. In 1898 a metropolitan chamber was framed to improve the town. By the 1930s Accra was deliberately spread out.