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Suburb and urban commune in Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Attécoubé

Attécoubé is a suburb of and one of the 10 urban communes of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Attécoubé
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The place

Attécoubé is a suburb of and one of the 10 urban communes of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It is situated to the northwest of Abidjan's central Plateau commune, overlooking the Baie du Banco. Attécoubé has a total area of 46.17 square kilometres (17.83 sq mi), 30 square kilometres (12 sq mi) of which is covered by forest and 5 square kilometres (1.9 sq mi) by Ébrié Lagoon. The commune forms part of Banco National Park.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Attécoubé

10 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
    Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium

    Building in Africa

    1.7 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Abidjan

    Archdiocese of the Catholic Church

    1.5 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    National Library of Ivory Coast

    National library

    1 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St. Paul's Cathedral

    Religious building of Abidjan (Ivory Coast)

    1.5 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Tour F

    Skyscraper in Abidjan

    1.3 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    La Pyramide

    Building in Abidjan, Ivory Coast

    2.2 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Houphouët-Boigny Bridge

    Bridge in Ivory Coast

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Museum of Civilizations in Ivory Coast

    Museum in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

    1 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    CCIA Building

    Building in Ivory Coast

    1.3 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Stade Municipal d'Abidjan

    Building in Africa

    1.9 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Attécoubé

Airports
Félix-Houphouët-Boigny (ABJ), 14 km
  • Kumasi → Attécoubé
    305 km · quickest by air, 6h 57m · GH₵1,070–1,650
  • Accra → Attécoubé
    425 km · quickest by air, 5h 31m · GH₵1,210–1,880
  • Tamale → Attécoubé
    572 km · quickest by air, 8h 4m · GH₵1,480–2,290
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Attécoubé

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 Attécoubé. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inWhether you're in a private car, taxi, or gbaka (the shared minibuses) you will be stopped at various official (and unofficial) checkpoints where they will delay you at the very least and try to shake down a bribe at the worst.
  • Get aroundIf you just need to cross the lagoon and can make use of one of the ferry routes, by all means take it.
  • Get aroundYou can take a ferry from the It takes 15 minutes and costs only CFA 150 to get you to A commuter railway system is under construction, the first section is expected to open in 2025.
  • Go nextJacqueville - A small, relaxing beach town that sits about an hour from Abidjan with a short, 450-m ferry across the lagoon.

From Wikivoyage: Abidjan, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    PríncipeST

    7 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,336 km
  2. 02
    Santo AntãoCV

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,645 km
  3. 03
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,865 km
  4. 04
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,320 km
  5. 05
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    3,815 km

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

Around it

Next door to Attécoubé

Attécoubé is 4 km from Abidjan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Abidjanmajor city and economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire800 m
  • Plateauhuman settlement in Ivory Coast1.7 km