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Weija

Weija is a small town and is the capital of Ga South Municipal District, a district in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.

Weija
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The place

Weija is a small town and is the capital of Ga South Municipal District, a district in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Weija has become a hotspot for economic activity because of the ultra modern shopping center, the West Hills Mall, which has been built there.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Weija

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Weija Dam

    Weija Dam is a dam on the Densu River which supports the main water treatment plant for Accra. It is operated by the Ghana Water Company.

    1.2 km · water treatment dam at Weija in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    West Hills Mall

    The West Hills Mall is a shopping centre located at Dukonah, near Weija along the Accra – Cape Coast Highway in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.

    2.5 km · shopping centre in Accra · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Weija

Airports
Kotoka (ACC), 19 km · Lomé–Tokoin (LFW), 188 km · Prempeh I (KMS), 189 km
  • Kumasi → Weija
    189 km · quickest by road, 4h 16m · GH₵135–180
  • Tamale → Weija
    429 km · quickest by air, 5h 11m · GH₵980–1,520
  • Lomé → Weija
    182 km · quickest by road, 3h 43m · $17–23
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Weija

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Weija. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inYou may have to ask around in order to find your way to the tro-tros leaving direct to Kokrobite, as they depart from a back corner of the station.
  • Get inIf in doubt, ask the tro-tro mate for "Big Milly's." After leaving the tro-tro, the most popular beachfront hotels are just a short walk down dirt roads.
  • Get aroundTaxis and tro-tros are available at the main road.
  • Go nextTro-tros to Accra leave from the paved road.

From Wikivoyage: Kokrobite, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    PríncipeST

    7 ways of moving, 13 sources

    966 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,865 km
  3. 03
    Santo AntãoCV

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,990 km
  4. 04
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,331 km
  5. 05
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    3,417 km

If you know how people move in Weija – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Weija

Weija is 15 km from Accra, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Gbawehuman settlement in Ghana2.8 km