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Abidjan

Ivory Coast

Watercolour of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The "Manhattan of West Africa" set around the Ébrié Lagoon, with Post Office Tower and St. Paul's Cathedral.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
Post Office Tower; St. Paul's Cathedral; Ébrié Lagoon; Alassane Ouattara Bridge; Banco National Park; Cocody
Viewpoint
Favor an elevated coastal viewpoint from across the lagoon (such as looking from Cocody or Treichville toward Le Plateau), showing calm lagoon waters with wooden pirogues in the foreground, the sweeping bridge and modernist towers in the middle-ground, and the lush green ridges of Banco fading in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the thick primary rainforest canopy of Banco, palm-fringed lagoon shores, and Cocody garden estates.
Guarded against
Avoid confusing Abidjan with Yamoussoukro (no inland savanna or gigantic Basilica dome); Abidjan is an energetic, coastal lagoon metropolis of water and modern towers.
Population6,321,017Wikidata: 5,616,633
Coordinates5.35°N, 4.00°W
Elevation18 m
Area2,119 km²
Time zoneAfrica/AbidjanUTC+0
Solar noon12:16clock runs 0.3 h ahead of the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Abidjan and you surface nearest to Toga Village, Tuvalu — 110 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

AboboCI8 km
YamoussoukroCI216 km
KumasiGH302 km
AccraGH421 km
LoméTG584 km
Porto-NovoBJ741 km
MonroviaLR760 km
OuagadougouBF826 km

Twinned cities

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