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 Lagos and has historically been the economic power base of the region.
- City with 7,570,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 50 metres (164 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code ABJ
- Description: major city and economic capital of Côte d’Ivoire
Places of Interest
Highlights include Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium and Musée des Civilisations de Côte d’Ivoire.
Musée des Civilisations de Côte d’Ivoire
Museum
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Adjamé and Attécoubé.
Abidjan
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Latitude
5.3204° or 5° 19′ 13″ north
Longitude
-4.0161° or 4° 0′ 58″ west
UN/LOCODE
CI ABJ
Open location code
6CQQ8XCM+4H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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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”
- Azerbaijani: “Abidjan”
- 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”
- Central Kurdish: “ئابیجان”
- Chechen: “Абиджан”
- Chinese: “Abidjan”
- Chinese: “阿必仁”
- Chinese: “阿必尚”
- Chinese: “阿比讓”
- Chinese: “阿比让/阿比讓”
- Chinese: “阿比让”
- 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: “अबिदजान”
- 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”
- Livvi: “Abidjan”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Abidjan”
- Ossetian: “Абиджан”
- Panjabi: “ਅਬੀਜਾਨ”
- Papiamento: “Abidjan”
- Persian: “آبیجان”
- Piemontese: “Abidjan”
- Polish: “Abidżan”
- Portuguese: “Abidjã”
- Portuguese: “Abidjan”
- Pushto: “ابیجان”
- Romanian: “Abidjan”
- Romanian: “Perla lagunelor”
- 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”
- Tajik: “Абиҷон”
- Talysh: “Abican”
- Talysh: “Abičan”
- Tamil: “அபிட்ஜான்”
- Tamil: “அபிஜான்”
- Tatar: “Абиджан”
- Tatar: “Абиҗан”
- Telugu: “అబిద్ జాన్”
- Thai: “อาบีจาน”
- 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”
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