The capital and largest city in Ghana with the population of the city proper estimated at 3,963,264 as of 2011. Accra also doubles as the capital of the Greater Accra Region and of the Accra Metropolitan District with which it is coterminous.

Accra is also the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area and includes eight districts - Accra Metropolitan, Tema Metropolitan, Ga East Municipal, Ga West Municipal, Ga South Municipal, Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal, Ashaiman Municipal and Adenta Municipal.It is home to about 4 million people, making it the largest metropolitan conglomeration in the country by population.