Tsévié
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| 6 ° 25 '19 " N , 1 ° 12' 36" E | |||
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 Togo
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| Region : | Maritime | ||
| Prefecture : | Zio | ||
| Residents : | 56,000 (2019) | ||
Tsévié is a city in Togo in the Maritime region with 20,247 inhabitants in 1982. According to different calculations, there are between 46,900 inhabitants in 2005 and 56,000 in 2019. With this population, Tsévié would be the seventh largest city in the country. Tsévié administrative seat of the prefecture of Zio.
The city is the market and the center of the agricultural area. Mainly cassava , yams and maize are grown here, as well as palm oil , which is intended for use in the cosmetics industry for export. Tsévié is connected to the capital Lomé , 32 km to the south, via the national road 1 , which crosses Togo in its entire length; the cities of Assahoun and Keye in the west and Tabligbo in the east of Togo can be reached via another road connection in an east-west direction . There is also a railway connection in a north-south direction.
During the German colonial era , Tsévié was already a marketplace and some European trading houses had set up shops there. The place was a station of the railway line Lomé - Atakpame and had a post and telegraph station as well as a rain measuring station.
sons and daughters of the town
- Edmond Apéti , known as “Dr. Kaolo ”(1946 / 47–1972), Togolese football player
- Kodjovi Mawuena (* 1959), Togolese football player and coach
literature
- Keyword: Tsewië. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume III, p. 555 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b [* [1] website with the population of various cities.], Accessed January 20, 2008
- ↑ DGSCN Republique Togolaise ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (see: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ), accessed January 20 2008
