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Accra (; or Gaga; ; Ewe: Gɛ; ) is the capital and largest city of Ghana, located on the southern coast at the Gulf of Guinea, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2021 census, the Accra Metropolitan District, , had a population of 284,124, and the larger Greater Accra Region, , had a population of 5.46 million. In common usage, the name "Accra" often refers to the territory of the Accra Metropolitan District as it existed before 2008, when it covered . This territory has since been split into 13 local government districts: 12 independent municipal districts (total area: 179.0 km

Dutch West India Company

Dutch chartered company responsible for trade and colonization in the New World (1621–1792)

fortified colonial trading post in Ghana

Dutch Gold Coast

Dutch possession in Western Africa between 1598 and 1872

Axim is a coastal town and the capital of Nzema East Municipal district, a district in Western Region of South Ghana. Axim lies 64 kilometers west of the port city of Sekondi-Takoradi in the Western Region, west of Cape Three Points. Axim has a 2013 settlement population of 27,719 people.

Herman Willem Daendels

Dutch politician (1762–1818)

Zwarte Hollanders

Black recruits of the Dutch army from Elmina

Fort São Sebastião de Xama

former fortified colonial trading post in Ghana

Fort Saint Anthony

former colonial fortified trading post in Ghana

fortidied colonial trading post in Kormantin, Ghana

fort on the Dutch Gold Coast, Ghana

Fort Coenraadsburg

Dutch-built fort in Ghana

Battle of Elmina

Fort Batenstein

Dutch fort and trading post on the Gold Coast

Fort Metal Cross

former fortified colonial trading post in Ghana

former colonial fortified trading post in Ghana

Dutch-built fort in Apam, Ghana

Fort Goede Hoop

material cultural heritage site in Ghana

Fort Vredenburgh

material cultural heritage site in Ghana

former fortified colonial trade-post in Sekondi, Ghana

material cultural heritage site in Ghana

Treaty of Butre

1656 treaty between the Netherlands and Ahanta

Battle of Elmina

1637 battle during the Dutch-Portuguese War

material cultural heritage site at Anomabu, Ghana

town in Central Region of Ghana

Dutch–Ahanta War

Anglo-Dutch Gold Coast Treaty

1867 treaty between England and The Netherlands

material cultural heritage site in Ghana

village in Central Region, Ghana

Treaty of Asebu

1612 treaty between the Dutch Republic and the Asebu

Dutch trading post in the Gold Coast

treaty between the Netherlands and the chiefs of Axim

Dutch Cemetery, Elmina

cemetery in Elmina

destroyed Fort on Dutch Gold Coast (contemporary Ghana)