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Bouaké

Bouaké is the second-largest city in Ivory Coast, with a population of 740,000.

Bouaké
Bouaké · Durand ndri (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

Bouaké is the second-largest city in Ivory Coast, with a population of 740,000. It is the seat of three levels of subdivision—Vallée du Bandama District, Gbêkê Region, and Bouaké Department. The city is located in the central part of Ivory Coast about 50 kilometres (31 mi) northeast of Lake Kossou, the country's largest lake. It is approximately 350 kilometres (220 mi) north of Abidjan on the Abidjan-Niger Railway and about 100 kilometres (62 mi) northeast of Yamoussoukro, the capital of the country.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bouaké

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Stade de la Paix

    Bouaké Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire. It is currently used mostly for football matches.

    3.1 km · Stadium in Ivory Coast · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bouaké

    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bouaké ) is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Bouaké in Côte d'Ivoire.

    0 m · archdiocese of the Catholic Church · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Université Alassane Ouattara

    The Université Alassane Ouattara is a public university in Côte d'Ivoire. It was known as Université de Bouaké prior to a name change in August 2012.

    5.5 km · university in côte d'ivoire · Wikipedia

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Getting to Bouaké

Airports
Félix-Houphouët-Boigny (ABJ), 295 km
Stations
Bouaké Airport, 8.8 km
  • Abidjan → Bouaké
    284 km · quickest by road, 5h 3m · $27–38
  • Kumasi → Bouaké
    392 km · quickest by road, 10h 27m · GH₵280–370
  • Bobo Dioulasso → Bouaké
    396 km · quickest by road, 7h 20m · $37–50
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bouaké

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bouaké. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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    PríncipeST

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  2. 02
    Santo AntãoCV

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

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  3. 03
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

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  4. 04
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

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  5. 05
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

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If you know how people move in Bouaké – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.