Godomey
Godomey is a town and arrondissement in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin.
Godomey is a town and arrondissement in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of Abomey-Calavi. According to the population census conducted by the Institut National de la Statistique Benin on March 11, 2013, the arrondissement had a total population of 253,262.
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Worth seeing in and around Godomey
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 l'Amitié
L'Amitié Stadium or Friendship Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Cotonou, Benin. It is currently used for football matches and also has facilities for athletics.
3.9 km · association football stadium in Benin · Wikipedia - 02Benin Marina
Benin Marina was a four-star hotel in Cotonou, Benin. It was located at Boulevard De La Marina, B.P. 1901 in the Haie Vive neighborhood, near the Cadjehoun Airport and the Erevan Shopping Center.
5.4 km · building in Africa · Wikipedia - 03Cotonou Central Mosque
The Cotonou Central Mosque is a mosque in Cotonou, Littoral, Benin. It is the most important building for the country's Muslims.
5.3 km · mosque in Cotonou, Benin · Wikipedia
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Getting to Godomey
- Airports
- Cotonou Cadjehoun (COO), 4 km · Murtala Muhammed (LOS), 110 km · Lomé–Tokoin (LFW), 123 km
- Stations
- Cadjehoun Airport, 4.1 km
- Lagos → Godomey116 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · ₦7,150–9,500
- Lomé → Godomey128 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · $12–16
- Accra → Godomey296 km · quickest by road, 6h 9m · GH₵185–245
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Godomey
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 Godomey. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBook with a skeptical eye, though a bus is likely to be safer than a bush taxi, although it may or may not be any more comfortable.
- Get inVirtually every Beninese town has bush taxi transport to Cotonou, although smaller towns in the north will probably only have one per day or fewer, or may only get you to the next-closest town with bush taxis running to Cotonou.
- Get aroundMoto taxis - locally called zemidjans or kekenos, are the most common form of transportation for the average Beninese person.
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Next door to Godomey
Godomey is 8 km from Cotonou, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.