Achimota
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Achimota ( ), is a town in the Accra Metropolitan District, a district of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Achimota means "speak no name" in the Ga language. In pre-colonial Ghana, its forbidden forest was a "silent" refuge for runaway slaves.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in GH, across 2 mapped points.
Within Vinony's link graph, Achimota is referenced by 45 other articles, and connects out to Greater Accra Region, Ghana and time zone.
Vinony files it under Populated places in the Accra Metropolitan District and Use Ghanaian English from January 2023.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Locality
- Accra
- Region
- Greater Accra Region
- Country
- Ghana
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
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- Achimota
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- town
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- Administration block of Achimota School
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- Ghana
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Ghana
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- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Greater Accra Region
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- District
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- Accra Metropolitan
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- 2012
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Ghana
- Located in
- Accra Metropolitan District
- Continent
- Africa
- Elevation
- 26
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- ACHIMOTA SCHOOL.jpg
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- Achimota
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Encyclopedic overview
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Achimota ( ), is a town in the Accra Metropolitan District, a district of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Achimota means "speak no name" in the Ga language. In pre-colonial Ghana, its forbidden forest was a "silent" refuge for runaway slaves.
==Education== Achimota is known for the eponymous Achimota School, as well as the St. John's Grammar School. Achimota is located on the Accra highway just after Tesano and has well laid buildings, bars and a good nightlife.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Achimota” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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