Bingerville
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District : | Abidjan | |
Coordinates : | 5 ° 21 ′ N , 3 ° 53 ′ W | |
Height : | 60 m | |
Residents : | 91,319 (2014) |
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
Vocational schools
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Secondary schools
private high schools
public secondary schools
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Sports
The local football club Entente Sportive de Bingerville is well known .
sons and daughters of the town
- Paul-Siméon Ahouanan Djro (* 1952), priest and archbishop of Bouaké
- Amara Diané (* 1982), soccer player
- Wilfried Bony (* 1988), football player
- Stéphane Agbré (* 1989), football player
- Eric Bailly (* 1994), soccer player
- Carolle Zahi (* 1994), track and field athlete
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Results of the 2014 census . Retrieved January 7, 2016.
- ↑ http://anthro.unige.ch/lap/ounjougou/neoancien.html University of Geneva: Peuplement humain et paléoenvironnement en Afrique de l'ouest