Chorkor
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Fishing Village | |
Chorkor is located in Ghana
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Country | Ghana |
Region | Greater Accra Region |
District | Accra Metropolis |
Elevation | 39 ft (12 m) |
Time zone | GMT |
• Summer (DST) | GMT (UTC) |
Chorkor is a fishing village and a neighborhood in the Accra Metropolis district, a district in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.[1][2] The Chorkor oven got its name from here.[3] Chorkor is a densely populated community.[4][5] Ga-Dangme is the largest ethnic group in Chorkor, followed by Akan.[6] Chorkor has electricity, water pipes, schools, and clinics.[7] The shorelines of Korle
lagoon in Chorkor are polluted by waste materials. Chorkor is popularly known for being the birthplace of the Azonto dance.[8]
References
- ↑ Accra Metropolis District
- ↑ Integration of Municipal. lumes.lu.se.
- ↑ Bonga processing. fao.org.
- ↑ Stephen Appiah endorses WASH United Campaign. wash-united.org.
- ↑ Strengthening the capicity. web.mit.edu.
- ↑ A comparative study of ethnic residential segregation in Ghana's two largest cities, Accra and Kumasi, by George Owusu and Samuel Agyei-Mensah.
- ↑ Welcome to the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. ucl.ac.uk.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.