Lagunes
The Lagunes is a defunct region of Côte d'Ivoire along the Atlantic coast, around the de facto capital of Abidjan. It features several large lagoons, which provide access a little ways inland to the ocean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Abidjan and Grand-Bassam.
Abidjan
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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.
Grand-Bassam
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Filled to the brim with French colonial charm, Grand-Bassam is a town in the Lagunes region of Côte d'Ivoire.
Assinie
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Assinie-Mafia is a coastal resort town in south-eastern Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of Adiaké Department in Sud-Comoé Region, Comoé District.
Lagunes
- Type: region of Côte d’Ivoire with 5,340,000 residents
- Description: region of Côte d’Ivoire
- Also known as: “Lagunes region” and “Lagunes Region”
- Location: Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
5.4167° or 5° 25′ northLongitude of center
-4.3333° or 4° 20′ westPopulation
5,340,000Wikidata ID
Q639491
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Lagunes” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إقليم لاغونس”
- Basque: “Lagunes”
- Belarusian: “Лагюн, рэгіён”
- Belarusian: “Лагюн”
- Belarusian: “Лягюн”
- Bengali: “লাগুনেস অঞ্চল”
- Breton: “Lagunes”
- Bulgarian: “Лагюн”
- Catalan: “Lagunes”
- Cebuano: “Lagunes”
- Chinese: “泻湖”
- Chinese: “潟湖区”
- Chinese: “潟湖區”
- Czech: “Lagunes”
- Danish: “Lagunes Region”
- Dutch: “Lagunes”
- Finnish: “Lagunesin alue”
- French: “Lagunes”
- French: “Région des Lagunes”
- Galician: “Lagunes”
- German: “Lagunes”
- Greek: “Λαγκύν”
- Gujarati: “લગુનસ પ્રાંત”
- Hindi: “लगुनेस प्रदेश”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Lagunes”
- Italian: “Lagune costiere ivoriane”
- Italian: “regione delle Lagune”
- Italian: “Regione delle Lagune”
- Japanese: “ラギューヌ州”
- Kannada: “ಲಗುನ್ಸ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Kazakh: “Лагюн”
- Korean: “라귄주”
- Latvian: “Lagūnas reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Lagūnų regionas”
- Malay: “Lagunes Region”
- Marathi: “लागुन्स प्रदेश”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lagunes”
- Norwegian: “Lagunes”
- Polish: “Lagunes”
- Polish: “Region Lagunes”
- Portuguese: “Lagunes”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Lagunes”
- Russian: “Лагюн”
- Sinhala: “ලැගුන්ස් කලාපය”
- Slovenian: “Lagun”
- Spanish: “Lagunes”
- Spanish: “Región de Lagunes”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Lagunes”
- Swedish: “Region Lagunes”
- Tamil: “லேகுன்ஸ் பகுதி”
- Telugu: “లాగ్యూన్స్ ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “เขตการ์ต”
- Turkish: “Lagunes Region”
- Ukrainian: “Лаґюн”
- Urdu: “لگونیس ریجن”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Lagunes”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Lagunes”. Photo: Zak Le Mesager, CC BY 2.0.