Guiglo
Sign in to saveGuiglo is a city in western Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of and the seat of Guiglo Department. It is also a commune and the seat of Cavally Region in Montagnes District. Guiglo is located on the Nzo River, a tributary of the Sassandra River. In the 2014 census, the city had a population of 52,544.
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- Locality
- Guiglo
- Region
- Montagnes
- Country
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Population
- 68,113
- Timezone
- Africa/Abidjan
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Guiglo
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City, 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
- Montagnes
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Cavally
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Guiglo
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 1930
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2021 census
- Settlement.population_note
- (2014 census)
- Settlement.population_total
- 171454
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Guiglo is a city in western Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of and the seat of Guiglo Department. It is also a commune and the seat of Cavally Region in Montagnes District. Guiglo is located on the Nzo River, a tributary of the Sassandra River. In the 2014 census, the city had a population of 52,544.
Guiglo is a market centre of the Guere, Yacouba and Mossi people, with trade in rice, livestock, and cassava predominating. The city is also a collecting depot, or entrepot, for coffee and timber that is taken to coastal ports for export. Guiglo is the site of both a research station and a sawmill.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Guiglo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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