Ganvie
Ganvie is a lake village in Benin, Africa, lying in Lake Nokoué, near Cotonou. With a population of around 20,000 people, it is probably the largest lake village in Africa and is very popular with tourists.
- Town with 20,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 2 metres (7 feet)
- …is also known as “Canvie”
- Description: human settlement in Benin
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vekky.
Vekky
Town
Vekky is a town and arrondissement in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin. Vekky is situated 4 km northeast of Ganvie.
Ganvie
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Latitude
6.4681° or 6° 28′ 5″ north
Longitude
2.39° or 2° 23′ 24″ east
Open location code
6FR4F99Q+6X
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Ganvie” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جانفي (قرية)”
- Arabic: “جانفي”
- Asturian: “Ganvie”
- Azerbaijani: “Qanvie”
- Bulgarian: “Ганви”
- Bulgarian: “Ганвие”
- Dutch: “Ganvie”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جانفى”
- Esperanto: “Ganvié”
- Finnish: “Ganvie”
- French: “Ganvie”
- French: “Ganvié”
- German: “Ganvié”
- Hebrew: “גאנביה”
- Indonesian: “Ganvie”
- Irish: “Ganvie”
- Italian: “Ganvié”
- Japanese: “ガンビエ”
- Lithuanian: “Ganvi”
- Polish: “Ganvie”
- Romanian: “Ganvie”
- Russian: “Ганвие”
- Russian: “Ганвье”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ganvié”
- Spanish: “Ganvie”
- Spanish: “Ganvié”
- Swedish: “Ganvie”
- Turkish: “Ganvie”
- Urdu: “گانوی”
- Vietnamese: “Ganvie”
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