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Greater Accra Region

First-level unit, Ghana: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-GHA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO GHA / GHStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
5,558,206
people (GHSL 2025)
3,218 km²
area
16.1%
of Ghana
29
units inside

01Map

Inside Greater Accra Region

The 29 ADM2 units of Greater Accra Region.

FIG 1 · 29 units inside Greater Accra Region
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

5,558,206

16.1% of Ghana.

People · WorldPop 2025

5,869,616

+6% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

વિસ્તાર

3,218 km²

1,727 people per km².

કોડ

GH-AA

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

476,377

people on land at or below 10 m, 8.6% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Greater Accra Region in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2021-12-31

5,455,692

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Poverty headcount · 2022-12-31

4%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

58%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

29 units inside Greater Accra Region

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Unit કોડ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Ablekuma Central Municipal – 109,204 69,523 14.32 7,626 1.7% 0
Ablekuma North Municipal – 1,117,855 550,934 29.6 37,765 17.7% 146,555
Ablekuma West Municipal – 82,564 48,023 12.97 6,366 1.3% 0
Accra Metropolis – 43,544 27,722 5.71 7,626 0.7% 0
Ada East – 117,588 83,648 291.4 404 1.9% 65,879
Ada West – 50,769 58,319 324.72 156 0.8% 12,133
Adenta Municipal – 69,353 192,149 78.14 888 1.1% 0
Ashaiman Municipal – 94,372 129,456 18.58 5,079 1.5% 0
Ayawaso Central Municipal – 37,864 14,670 1.68 22,538 0.6% 0
Ayawaso East Municipal – 101,214 32,733 6.16 16,431 1.6% 0
Ayawaso North Municipal – 53,188 27,018 4.86 10,944 0.8% 0
Ayawaso West – 308,281 48,394 32.93 9,362 4.9% 0
Ga Central Municipal – 309,628 500,002 49.13 6,302 4.9% 0
Ga East – 152,674 254,884 85.99 1,775 2.4% 0
Ga North Municipal – 148,303 267,105 125.4 1,183 2.3% 0
Ga South Municipal – 47,885 156,189 179.14 267 0.8% 0
Ga West Municipal – 142,121 311,859 175.53 810 2.2% 0
Korle Klottey Municipal – 162,994 52,713 9.92 16,431 2.6% 0
Kpone Katamanso – 408,172 734,096 241.22 1,692 6.4% 10,437
Krowor Municipal – 111,047 145,603 18.25 6,085 1.8% 0
La Dade-kotopon – 506,626 163,846 36.3 13,957 8% 13,907
La-nkwantanang-madina – 241,356 441,729 71.43 3,379 3.8% 0
Ledzokuku Municipal – 359,016 316,086 29.4 12,211 5.7% 32,373
Ningo/prampram – 135,570 281,087 625.12 217 2.1% 22,985
Okaikwei North Municipal – 337,416 171,400 22.53 14,976 5.3% 0
Shai Osudoku – 38,329 144,993 973.44 39 0.6% 7,177
Tema Metropolitan – 207,215 294,337 42.84 4,837 3.3% 29,934
Tema West Municipal – 274,652 345,661 45.38 6,052 4.3% 11,401
Weija Gbawe Municipal – 560,277 518,263 164.5 3,406 8.9% 165,910
05સંપર્કમાં આવવું

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
None at this resolution
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Railways
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06જોખમ

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Greater Accra Region publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Ghana.
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08સ્ત્રોતો

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen GHA ADM1, source: Open Street Map, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2021. Offered under the same licence (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen GHA ADM2, source: USAID Ghana HPNO, Ghana Statistical Service, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2019
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
દેશો
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.