Yamoussoukro

Yamoussoukro is the capital of Côte d'Ivoire and is perhaps the single most bizarre modern city on Earth. It is a large grid of paved streets and lights with almost nothing at all in between them.
  • City with 340,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 214 metres (702 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code ASK
  • Description: city of côte d’ivoire
  • Also known as
    “N’Gokro”
    “Yamoussokro”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro and Charles Konan Banny Stadium.

Church
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The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace is a minor…

Yamoussoukro

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Latitude
6.8181° or 6° 49′ 5″ north
Longitude
-5.2822° or 5° 16′ 56″ west
UN/LOCODE
CI ASK
Open location code
6CRPRP99+64
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Yamoussoukro” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Albanian: “Jamusukro”
  • Amharic: “ያሙሱክሮ”
  • Arabic: “ياموسوكرو”
  • Aragonese: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Armenian: “Յամուսուկրո”
  • Asturian: “Yamusukru”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yamosukro”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yamusukro”
  • Balinese: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Bambara: “Yamusukuro”
  • Basque: “Jamusukro”
  • Belarusian: “Ямусукра”
  • Bengali: “ইয়ামুসুক্রো”
  • Bosnian: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Breton: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Bulgarian: “Ямусукро”
  • Catalan: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Cebuano: “Yamoussoukro (ulohang dakbayan sa Baybayon sa Marpil)”
  • Cebuano: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Central Bikol: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Central Kurdish: “یامووسووکرۆ”
  • Chechen: “Ямусукро”
  • Chinese: “亚穆苏克罗”
  • Chinese: “亞穆蘇克羅”
  • Chinese: “雅穆索戈”
  • Chinese: “雅穆蘇克雷”
  • Cornish: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Croatian: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Czech: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Dagbani: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Danish: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Yamusukro”
  • Dutch: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Esperanto: “Jamusukro”
  • Estonian: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Ewe: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Extremaduran: “Yamusukro”
  • Fanti: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Farefare: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Finnish: “Yamoussoukro”
  • French: “Yakro”
  • French: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Ga: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Galician: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Georgian: “იამუსუკრო”
  • German: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Greek: “Γιαμουσουκρό”
  • Greek: “Γιαμουσσούκρο”
  • Guarani: “Iamusúkoro”
  • Gujarati: “યામોસ્સોક્રો”
  • Haitian: “Yamousoukro”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Hausa: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Hebrew: “יאמוסוקרו”
  • Hindi: “यामुसूक्रो”
  • Hindi: “यामूसोकुरो”
  • Hungarian: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Icelandic: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Ido: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Igbo: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Inari Sami: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Indonesian: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Interlingua: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Interlingue: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Irish: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Italian: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Japanese: “ヤムスクロ”
  • Javanese: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Kabiyè: “Yamusukro”
  • Kabyle: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Kannada: “ಯಮೌಸೌಕ್ರೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Ямусукро қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Ямусукро”
  • Kirghiz: “Ямусукро”
  • Komering: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Korean: “야무수크로”
  • Korean: “야무쑤끄로”
  • Kotava: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Kurdish: “Yamussukro”
  • Kusaal: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Latin: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Latin: “Yamussukro”
  • Latvian: “Jamusukro”
  • Ligurian: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Lithuanian: “Jamusukras”
  • Livvi: “Jamusukro”
  • Lombard: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Low German: “Jamoessoekro”
  • Low German: “Jamusukro”
  • Luxembourgish: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Macedonian: “Јамусукро”
  • Malagasy: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Malay: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Malayalam: “യമൂസ്സൂക്രോ”
  • Marathi: “यामूसूक्रो”
  • Mazanderani: “یاموسوکرو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Minangkabau: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Mingrelian: “იამუსუკრო”
  • Moksha: “Ямусукра”
  • Moksha: “Ямусукро”
  • Mongolian: “Ямусукро хот”
  • Mongolian: “Ямусукро”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ياموسوكرو”
  • Mossi: “Yamoussoukro”
  • N'Ko: “ߦߊߡߎߛߏ߬ߞߙߐ߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߦߊ߬ߡߎߛߞߙߐ߬”
  • Nauru: “Yamoussoukrou”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Northern Frisian: “Yamoussoukro (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Norwegian: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Novial: “Yamusukro”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Iamossocrò”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Yamoussoukro”
  • Oriya: “ୟାମୁସସୁତ୍ରୋ”
  • Ossetian: “Ямусукро”
  • Panjabi: “ਯਾਮੂਸੂਕਰੋ”
  • Papiamento: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Persian: “یاموسوکرو”
  • Piemontese: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Polish: “Jamusukro”
  • Portuguese: “Iamussucro”
  • Portuguese: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Pushto: “یاموسوکرو”
  • Quechua: “Yamusukru”
  • Romanian: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Russia Buriat: “Ямусукро”
  • Russian: “Ямусукро”
  • Russian: “Ямусукуро”
  • Sakizaya: “Ya-mu-su-ke”
  • Santali: “ᱭᱟᱢᱩᱥᱩᱠᱨᱳ”
  • Sardinian: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Scots: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Serbian: “Јамусукро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Shona: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Silesian: “Jamusukro”
  • Sindhi: “يامسوڪرو”
  • Sindhi: “ياموسوڪرو”
  • Sinhala: “යාමොසුක්‍රෝ”
  • Slovak: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Slovenian: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Somali: “Yamoussoukro”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یاموسوکرو”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Spanish: “Yamusukro”
  • Swahili: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Swedish: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Swiss German: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Tagalog: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Tajik: “Ямусукро”
  • Talysh: “Jamusukro”
  • Tamil: “யமாஸுக்ரோ”
  • Tamil: “யாமூசூக்ரோ”
  • Telugu: “యామోసూక్రో”
  • Thai: “ยามุสซุโกร”
  • Thai: “ยามูซูโกร”
  • Tibetan: “ཡམ་སོ་ཁེ་རོ།”
  • Turkish: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Turkmen: “Ýamusukro”
  • Twi: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Tyap: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Tyap: “Yamusuki̱ro”
  • Udmurt: “Ямусукро”
  • Uighur: “يامۇسسۇكرو”
  • Ukrainian: “Ямусукро”
  • Urdu: “یاموسسوکرو”
  • Urdu: “یاموسوکرو”
  • Uzbek: “Yamusukro”
  • Venetian: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Veps: “Jamusukro”
  • Vietnamese: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Volapük: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yamoussoukro”
  • Welsh: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Western Frisian: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Western Mari: “Ямусукро”
  • Western Panjabi: “یاموسوکرو”
  • Western Panjabi: “یوموسوکرو”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚穆苏克罗”
  • Yiddish: “יאמוסאקרא”
  • Yoruba: “Yamoussoukro”
  • Yue Chinese: “雅穆蘇克雷”
  • Zulu: “i-Yamoussoukro”

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