Dabakala
Sign in to saveDabakala is a town in northeast Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of and the seat of Dabakala Department in Hambol Region, Vallée du Bandama District. Dabakala is also a commune.
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Place details
- Locality
- Dabakala
- Region
- Vallée du Bandama
- Country
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Population
- 18,322
- Timezone
- Africa/Abidjan
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Dabakala
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town, sub-prefecture, and commune
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ivory Coast
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Ivory Coast
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Vallée du Bandama
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Hambol
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Dabakala
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 1940
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2021 census
- Settlement.population_note
- (2014 census)
- Settlement.population_total
- 78634
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Villages
- Notes
Dabakala is a town in northeast Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of and the seat of Dabakala Department in Hambol Region, Vallée du Bandama District. Dabakala is also a commune.
Under the Wassoulou Empire, Dabakala was a major center of the arms industry, with 3-400 blacksmiths building functional copies of European repeater rifles to use in their struggle against French colonial forces.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dabakala” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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