Bondoukou
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Bondoukou (var. Bonduku, Bontuku) is a city in northeastern Ivory Coast, 420 km northeast of Abidjan. It is the seat of both Zanzan District and Gontougo Region. It is also a commune and the seat of and a sub-prefecture of Bondoukou Department.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Bondoukou
- Settlement.other_name
- Bonduku; Bontuku
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City, sub-prefecture, and commune
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- Bondoukou kourouby c1910.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
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- Bondoukou in 1910
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- Settlement.mapsize
- 340px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Region around Bondoukou town, showing international border in red, c. 1957.
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- Ivory Coast
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- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
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- Location in Ivory Coast
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Zanzan
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Gontougo
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- Notable people
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Bondoukou (var. Bonduku, Bontuku) is a city in northeastern Ivory Coast, 420 km northeast of Abidjan. It is the seat of both Zanzan District and Gontougo Region. It is also a commune and the seat of and a sub-prefecture of Bondoukou Department.
Bondoukou is situated near the border with Ghana, just across the border from the Ghanaian town of Sampa. The city lies at the junction of the main A1 highway, with roads to Sorobango to the north and Ghana to the east.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bondoukou” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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