Yopougon
Yopougon, also known colloquially as Yop City, is a suburb of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Yopougon, also known colloquially as Yop City, is a suburb of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It is the most populous of the 10 urban communes of Abidjan and covers most of the western territory of the city. Yopougon is the only commune of Abidjan that spans both north and south sides of Ébrié Lagoon.
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Worth seeing in and around Yopougon
One place 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.
- 01Roman Catholic Diocese of Yopougon
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Yopougon ) is a diocese located in the city of Yopougon in the ecclesiastical province of Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire.
3 km · diocese of the Catholic Church · Wikipedia
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Getting to Yopougon
- Airports
- Félix-Houphouët-Boigny (ABJ), 17 km
- Kumasi → Yopougon310 km · quickest by air, 7h 5m · GH₵1,080–1,660
- Accra → Yopougon430 km · quickest by air, 5h 39m · GH₵1,220–1,890
- Tamale → Yopougon576 km · quickest by air, 8h 12m · GH₵1,490–2,300
- 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 Yopougon
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 Yopougon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Yopougon
Yopougon is 8 km from Abidjan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.