Bingerville

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Bingerville (Ivory Coast)
Bingerville
Bingerville
Basic data
District : Abidjan
Coordinates : 5 ° 21 ′  N , 3 ° 53 ′  W Coordinates: 5 ° 21 ′  N , 3 ° 53 ′  W
Height : 60  m
Residents : 91,319 (2014)
Bingerville streetscape

Bingerville is a city and sub-prefecture in the autonomous district of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast with 91,319 inhabitants according to the 2014 census. The former market town was from 1900 to 1934 after Grand-Bassam and before Abidjan capital of the Ivory Coast. Its name goes back to the French governor Louis-Gustave Binger .

geography

Bingerville is located on the Ébrié lagoon , about 20 kilometers east of the center of the capital Abidjan.

history

Here, next to Iwo Eleru in southern Nigeria, is one of the two important archaeological sites in West Africa, where modern humans ( homo sapiens ) have certainly already lived in the epoch between 25,000 and 13,000 years before our era .

languages

In addition to the official language, French , Ébrié , the language of the Ébriés, is spoken in everyday life .

education

In addition to a large botanical garden, the sub-prefecture is the seat of the Inter-African Training Center for Electricity Professions ( Center des Métiers de l'Electricité ).

Higher schools
public

  • Cocody University - Bingerville Campus
  • National School of Agriculture ( École nationale supérieure agronomique )

Vocational schools
public

  • Electricity Professions Center ( Center des métiers de l'électricité )
  • Agricultural school ( Lycée agricole )

Secondary schools
public high schools

  • Lycée modern et classique de garçons
  • Lycée modern de jeunes filles Mamie Houphouët Fêtai

private high schools

  • Lycée modern le conquérant
  • Lycée modern Saint Cyrille

public secondary schools

  • College modern
  • General Technical Preparatory School for the Army ( École Militaire Préparatoire Technique ) (EMPT - the country's elite secondary school)

Sports

The local football club Entente Sportive de Bingerville is well known .

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Bingerville  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Results of the 2014 census . Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  2. ↑ http://anthro.unige.ch/lap/ounjougou/neoancien.html University of Geneva: Peuplement humain et paléoenvironnement en Afrique de l'ouest