 Business in Bouaké, Ivory Coast
Foreign Trade and Business in Bouaké (Baoulé): the third economy of Ivory Coast, Gbêkê, Bandama, Baoulé.
The city of Bouaké is the capital (County capital) of the Bouaké
Department of
Ivory Coast (West Africa)
- Population of Bouaké (agglomeration): 1,5 million people
- Bouaké is the second most populated Ivorian city after Abidjan
- Important immigration of citizens from Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger
- Bouaké is the third Ivorian economy after Abidjan and San-Pédro
- Cocoa and coffee production
- Bouaké is an important trade centre of the Central region of Ivory Coast
- Important cross-border trade with
Burkina Faso and
Mali
More information: Business in Ivory Coast, at EENI Website.
- 2002 - 2010: control of Bouaké by the New Forces of Ivory Coast (FNCI)
- Bouaké remained, from 2002 until the presidential elections of the end of 2010, under the control of the new armed forces
- Bouaké was an important slave market
- Climate of Bouaké: tropical wet
- The main languages in Bouaké are French, Baoulé and Dyula
- The main ethnic group of Bouaké are the Baoulé
- Bauolés are from Ghana (Akan group)
- 23% of the Ivorian population (3,9 million Ivorian) are Baulés
- Bauolés speak Baulé (Niger-Congolese language)
- Other ethnicities in Bouaké are Dyula, Agni, Akyé, Bété and
Mossi
- The main religions in Bouaké are Islam and the African Traditional Religions
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bouaké
- Ivorian region: Gbêkê region (Centre of Ivory Coast).
- Departments of the Gbêkê region: Bouaké, Béoumi, Botro and Sakassou

Ivorian District:
Bandama Valley
- Area of the Bandama Valley: 28.530 square kilometres
- Contiguous districts: Lacs (Lagos), Sassandra-Marahou, Savanes, Woroba and Zanzan
- The main ethnicities of the Bandama Valley are Baoulé and Djiminis
Transport and Logistics (Bouaké, Ivory Coast)
Transport and Logistics in Ivory Coast

Distances from Bouaké to:
- Abidjan: 342 kilometres
- Yamoussoukro: 106 kilometres
- Korhogo: 229 kilometres
- Daloa: 236 kilometres
- Man: 330 kilometres
- San-Pédro: 474 kilometres
Access to the Benin-Niger-Burkina Faso-Ivory Coast Railway loop

Railway: Abidjan (Ivory Coast)- Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)-Niger
SKBO cross-border axis
- Bouaké
- Sikasso: the second Malian city by population
- Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso)
Higher Education in Bouaké (Ivory Coast)
- University Alassane Ouattara
History of Ivory Coast
Bouaké (Costa de Marfil)
Bouaké (Côte d'Ivoire)
Bouaké (Costa do Marfim) (c) EENI Global Business School (Africa)
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