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

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.
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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.
- 01Stade 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 - 02Roman 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 - 03Université 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 → Bouaké284 km · quickest by road, 5h 3m · $27–38
- Kumasi → Bouaké392 km · quickest by road, 10h 27m · GH₵280–370
- Bobo Dioulasso → Bouaké396 km · quickest by road, 7h 20m · $37–50
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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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