Aboisso is a town in south-eastern
Ivory Coast
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lying on the
Soumié River. It is a
sub-prefecture of the
Aboisso Department for which it is also the seat of government. Aboisso is also a
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
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** Communes of ...
as well as the seat of government for the
Sud-Comoé Region in
Comoé District.
The town's population is primarily composed of the Anyi Sanwi
ethnic group
An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...
, a branch of the
Akan people
The Akan () people live primarily in present-day Ghana and Ivory Coast in West Africa. The Akan language (also known as ''Twi/Fante'') are a group of dialects within the Central Tano branch of the Potou–Tano subfamily of the Niger–Congo ...
. Once part of the
Krindjabo kingdom, the town also served as a staging point for
Marcel Treich-Laplène's early explorations of Ivory Coast. The area is served by
Aboisso Airport.
History
Aboisso was the seat of the
Sud-Comoé region from 1997 to 2011.
In 2014, the population of the sub-prefecture of Aboisso was 86,115.
Villages
The eighteen villages of the sub-prefecture of Aboisso and their population in 2014 are:
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References
Sub-prefectures of Sud-Comoé
Communes of Sud-Comoé
Regional capitals of Ivory Coast
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