The capital and largest city of Ghana, with an estimated urban population of 2.66 million as of 2023.[6] It is also the capital of the Greater Accra Region and of the Accra Metropolitan District, with which it is coterminous.[7] Accra is furthermore the anchor of a larger metropolitan area, the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area ,[8] which is inhabited by about 4 million people, making it the second largest metropolitan conglomeration in Ghana by population,[5] and the eleventh-largest metropolitan area in Africa.