1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Ghana
Compare this sourced profile of Accra, Ghana before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Accra—1,963,264, Africa/Accra, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital city of Ghana.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Accra is GeoNames ID 2306104. Its recorded administrative path is Accra → Greater Accra → Ghana, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Accra occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-29; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Accra ranks 210 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Ghana entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 44. Its 1,963,264 population value is 0.87 times the 2,253,897 median for the country cohort and 2.18 times the 902,588 regional median. Accra is rank 2 among the 2 selected Ghana entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Accra's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Accra's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Lomé at 169.335 km with 2,188,376 recorded people; Kumasi at 201.906 km with 2,544,530 recorded people; Ajegunle at 402.664 km with 550,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 233.329 km. Compared with Lomé, Accra's recorded population is 0.90 times as large. Against Accra, Lomé follows Maritime → Togo in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Togo cohort rather than Ghana, uses Africa/Lome instead of Africa/Accra, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Accra's. Against Accra, Kumasi follows Kumasi → Ashanti → Ghana in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Ghana cohort, uses the shared Africa/Accra identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Accra's. Against Accra, Ajegunle follows Ajeromi/Ifelodun → Lagos → Nigeria in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Nigeria cohort rather than Ghana, uses Africa/Lagos instead of Africa/Accra, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Accra's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 928 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Accra's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 2306104, the coordinate pair 5.5560 / 0.1969, country rank 2 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 2365267 at 169.335 km bind Accra to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Accra's reference point is 5.5560° north and 0.1969° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Accra is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Accra's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Accra's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Accra's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Accra, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Accra's closest other entries in this atlas are Lomé (169.335 km), Kumasi (201.906 km), Ajegunle (402.664 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-29; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.