Greater Accra is the smallest of the ten regions of Ghana, covering an area of approximately 1.4 per cent of the size of Ghana. The region’s capital is Accra, which is also the national capital. The population of Greater Accra region was about 2,905,726 representing around 15 per cent of Ghana’s population. Manufacturing, trading, catering and hotel business, construction, utilities and social services and fishing and livestock farming are the major economic activities in the region. Crop farming is relatively not important in the region’s economy as it is in the other regions. However, other agricultural activities such as fishing, poultry and livestock farming are prominent. The largest concentration of utilities and social services is also in the Greater Accra region, where the sector employs about 22 per cent of the region’s labour force and which accounts for more than 25 per cent of the total national labour force in the sector. The major ethnic groups living in Greater Accra are the Akan, Ga and the Ewe.