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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.

Following the death of long term president-for-life Felix Houphouët Boigny in 1993, the fortunes for Abidjan changed a great deal and successive coups d'etats in Cote d'Ivoire caused a massive exodus of the foreigners living there. Today, despite the current political issues in Cote d'Ivoire at large, Abidjan remains the economic and de facto capital of the country. Even after everything that's happened, it still boasts a large selection of restaurants, hotels, sites, and other reasons to visit. For those traveling through West Africa, it is a must-see city with one of the liveliest night scenes to be found for 1,000 km.


The Vridi Canal opened the lagoon to the sea in 1950, and the city soon became the major shipping and financial centre of French-speaking West Africa. The first of two bridges linking the mainland to Petit-Bassam Island was built in 1958. Abidjan’s modern deepwater port exports coffee, cocoa, timber, bananas, pineapples, and manganese. From the administrative and business sectors on the mainland, the city stretches southward to the industrial area on Petit-Bassam and the mineral and petroleum docks along the Vridi Canal. There are a number of wide, shady streets and gardened squares in the city; the university (1958) lies on the eastern mainland. Abidjan has a museum of traditional Ivoirian art, a national library, and several agricultural and scientific research institutes. There are numerous tourist attractions, most notably the immense Hôtel Ivoire, which features a bowling alley, cinema, casino, and the only ice rink in Western Africa; the Italian-designed St. Paul’s Cathedral is one of the continent’s most elaborate churches. North of the city is Banco National Park, a magnificent tropical rainforest. Abidjan is a communications centre and the site of an international airport (at Port-Bouët, an autonomous municipality within Abidjan). Pop. (2014) 4,707,000.

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