Côte d’Ivoire
Lagunes
Abidjan Autonomous District

Abidjan

Serving as the capital from 1933 until 1983, Abidjan is the biggest and most important city of Cote d'Ivoire. With a population of around 4,000,000 people, it is the second largest city in West Africa after and has historically been the economic power base of the region.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium and National Library of Ivory Coast.

Stadium
Photo: Zenman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , nicknamed Le Félicia, is a multi-purpose stadium, which can host football, rugby union and athletics, in Abidjan, .

Library
is located in Abidjan, . It was closed in 2006 because of lack of funding and a new team led by Adjiman Nandoh Chantal has been at work since February 2008 and aims to restore and renew the institution.

Garden
Photo: Exilexi, CC BY 4.0.
is a garden.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Adjamé and Attécoubé.

Suburb
Photo: Willy Stephane Awaho, CC BY 2.0.
is one of the 10 urban communes of Abidjan, . It forms part of the metropolitan area and autonomous district of Abidjan. The name means "a junction" or "the centre" in the local Tchaman language.

Suburb
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is a suburb of and one of the 10 urban communes of Abidjan, . It is situated to the northwest of Abidjan's central Plateau commune, overlooking the Baie du Banco.

Suburb
is a suburb of Abidjan, . It is one of the 10 urban communes of the city. is one of four communes of Abidjan that are entirely south of Ébrié Lagoon, the others being , , and .

Abidjan

Latitude
5.3204° or 5° 19′ 13″ north
Longitude
-4.0161° or 4° 0′ 58″ west
Population
7,570,000
Elevation
50 metres (164 feet)
IATA airport code
ABJ
United Nations Location Code
CI ABJ
Open location code
6CQQ8XCM+4H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1046100133
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2293538
Wiki­data ID
Q1515
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Abidjan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Abidjan”
  • Albanian: “Abidjan”
  • Albanian: “Abixhan”
  • Amharic: “አቢጃን”
  • Arabic: “آبيجان”
  • Arabic: “أبيجان”
  • Arabic: “أبيدجان”
  • Arabic: “ابيجان”
  • Arabic: “ابيدجان”
  • Armenian: “Աբիջան”
  • Asturian: “Abidjan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Abican”
  • Balinese: “Abidjan”
  • Basque: “Abidjan”
  • Belarusian: “Абіджан”
  • Bengali: “আবিজান”
  • Bengali: “আবিদজান”
  • Betawi: “Abijan”
  • Bosnian: “Abidjan”
  • Breton: “Abidjan”
  • Bulgarian: “Абиджан”
  • Catalan: “Abidjan”
  • Cebuano: “Abidjan”
  • Central Bikol: “Abidjan”
  • Chechen: “Абиджан”
  • Chinese: “Abidjan”
  • Chinese: “阿必仁”
  • Chinese: “阿必尚”
  • Chinese: “阿比让/阿比讓”
  • Chinese: “阿比让”
  • Chinese: “阿比讓”
  • Corsican: “Abidjan”
  • Corsican: “Abigian”
  • Croatian: “Abidjan”
  • Czech: “Abidžan”
  • Danish: “Abidjan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Abican”
  • Dutch: “Abidjan”
  • Eastern Mari: “Абиджан”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ابيدجان”
  • Esperanto: “Abiĝano”
  • Estonian: “Abidjan”
  • Finnish: “Abidjan”
  • French: “Abidjan nord”
  • French: “Abidjan Nord”
  • French: “Abidjan”
  • French: “Babi”
  • French: “La perle des lagunes”
  • French: “Perle des lagunes”
  • Fulah: “Abidjan”
  • Galician: “Abidjan”
  • Georgian: “აბიჯანი”
  • German: “Abidjan”
  • German: “Abidschan”
  • Greek: “Αμπιτζάν”
  • Guarani: “Ambijã”
  • Gujarati: “અબિદ્જાન”
  • Gujarati: “આબિદજાન”
  • Haitian: “Abidjan”
  • Hausa: “Abidjan”
  • Hebrew: “אביג’אן”
  • Hebrew: “אבידג’אן”
  • Hebrew: “אבידגאן”
  • Hindi: “आबिजान”
  • Hindi: “आबिदजान”
  • Hungarian: “Abidjan”
  • Icelandic: “Abidjan”
  • Ido: “Abidjan”
  • Inari Sami: “Abidjan”
  • Indonesian: “Abidjan”
  • Interlingue: “Abidjan”
  • Irish: “Abidjan”
  • Italian: “Abidjan”
  • Italian: “Abigian”
  • Japanese: “アビジャン”
  • Javanese: “Abidjan”
  • Kabiyè: “Abɩɩjaŋ”
  • Kabyle: “Abidjan”
  • Kannada: “ಅಬಿಜಾನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಆಬಿಜಾನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Abidjan qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Абиджан”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Abidjan”
  • Kirghiz: “Абиджан шаары”
  • Komering: “Abidjan”
  • Kongo: “Abijan”
  • Korean: “아비장”
  • Latin: “Abidjan”
  • Latvian: “Abidžana”
  • Latvian: “Abijan”
  • Lingala: “Abidjan”
  • Lithuanian: “Abidžanas”
  • Lombard: “Abidjan”
  • Low German: “Abidjan”
  • Luxembourgish: “Abidjan”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Abidjan”
  • Macedonian: “Абиџан”
  • Malagasy: “Abidjan”
  • Malay: “Abidjan”
  • Malayalam: “അബിജാൻ”
  • Manx: “Abidjan”
  • Marathi: “आबिजान”
  • Marathi: “आबीजान”
  • Mazanderani: “آبیجان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Abidjan”
  • Mingrelian: “აბიჯანი”
  • Moksha: “Абиджан”
  • Mongolian: “Абиджан”
  • Mongolian: “Абижан хот”
  • Mongolian: “Абижан”
  • N'Ko: “ߊߓߌߖߊ߲߬”
  • Nauru: “Abidjan”
  • Navajo: “Tósidó Siyíní”
  • Northern Frisian: “Abidjan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Abidjan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Abidjan”
  • Norwegian: “Abidjan”
  • Novial: “Abidjan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Abidjan”
  • Ossetian: “Абиджан”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਬੀਜਾਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Abidjan”
  • Persian: “آبیجان”
  • Piemontese: “Abidjan”
  • Polish: “Abidżan”
  • Portuguese: “Abidjã”
  • Portuguese: “Abidjan”
  • Pushto: “ابیجان”
  • Romanian: “Abidjan”
  • Russia Buriat: “Абиджан”
  • Russian: “Абиджан”
  • Samogitian: “Abidžans”
  • Sardinian: “Abidjan”
  • Scots: “Abidjan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Abidjan”
  • Serbian: “Абиџан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Abidjan”
  • Sicilian: “Abidjan”
  • Silesian: “Abidżan”
  • Sindhi: “عابدجان”
  • Sinhala: “අබිජාන්”
  • Slovak: “Abidjan”
  • Slovak: “Abidžan”
  • Slovenian: “Abidžan”
  • Somali: “Abidjan”
  • Spanish: “Abiyan”
  • Spanish: “Abiyán”
  • Swahili: “Abidjan”
  • Swedish: “Abidjan”
  • Swiss German: “Abidjan”
  • Tagalog: “Abidjan”
  • Tajik: “Абиджан”
  • Talysh: “Abican”
  • Talysh: “Abičan”
  • Tamil: “அபிட்ஜான்”
  • Tamil: “அபிஜான்”
  • Tatar: “Абиҗан”
  • Telugu: “అబిద్ జాన్”
  • Thai: “อาบีจาน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Abidjan”
  • Turkish: “Abican”
  • Turkish: “Abidjan”
  • Turkmen: “Abidjan”
  • Turkmen: “Abijan”
  • Tyap: “A̱bijan”
  • Ukrainian: “Абіджан”
  • Urdu: “آبدجان”
  • Urdu: “آبیدجان”
  • Uzbek: “Abidjan”
  • Venetian: “Abidjan”
  • Vietnamese: “Abidjan”
  • Volapük: “Abidjan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Abidjan”
  • Welsh: “Abidjan”
  • Western Armenian: “Ապիճան”
  • Western Frisian: “Abidjan”
  • Western Mari: “Абиджан”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿比让”
  • Yiddish: “אבידזשאן”
  • Yoruba: “Abidjan”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿必仁”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿必尚”
  • “Abidjan”
  • “Abidžans”

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