Legon , a suburb of the

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ian city

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, is situated about north-east of the city center in the

Accra Metropolis District The Accra Metropolitan District is one of the 254 Metropolitan, Municipal and Districts in Ghana, and among the 26 such districts in the Greater Accra Region with a population of 284,124 as of 2021. As of March 2018, it spans an area of approxim ...

, a

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in the

Greater Accra Region The Greater Accra Region has the smallest area of Ghana's 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of 3,245 square kilometres. This is 1.4 per cent of the total land area of Ghana. It is the second most populated region, befor ...

. Legon is home to the main campus of the

University of Ghana The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian national public universities. The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the Br ...

. Ghanaians loosely refer to the University of Ghana simply as "Legon". Legon is also home to a few of Ghana's well known educational institutions such as

Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School , country = Ghana , region = Greater-Accra , location = Legon , coordinates = , type = Public high school , religious_affiliation = Presbyterian Church ...

(PRESEC-Legon),

Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration The Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) is a public co-educational university spread over four campuses (Accra, Tema, Kumasi and Takoradi) and made up of six schools, ten research centers located at Greenhill in Accra ...

and the Institute of Professional Studies. Legon is adjacent to one of the most prestigious residential suburbs of Accra -

East Legon East Legon is a town in the Accra Metropolis District, Accra Metropolitan district, a Districts of Ghana, district of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. East Legon has a total area of 4.95 km2 (1.91 mi2) and a total distance of 9.36&nbs ...

and only about 20 minutes drive from the

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Education

The university has its own

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and

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s known commonly as the University Primary and Junior Secondary School (UPS) and the University of Ghana Staff Village Basic School.

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s who attend UPS school are predominantly kin to the

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s and senior staff of the University of Ghana. The Lycée Français d'Accra, a French international school, is in

.Histoire de l’école française Jacques Prévert à Accra

Archive
. '' Lycée Français d'Accra''. Retrieved on April 28, 2015.

References

External links

University of Ghana website
{{Authority control Populated places in the Greater Accra Region Accra