Bongo | |
Settlement Type: | Town and sub-prefecture |
Pushpin Map: | Ivory Coast |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Ivory Coast |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | District |
Subdivision Name1: | Comoé |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Sud-Comoé |
Subdivision Type3: | Department |
Subdivision Name3: | Grand-Bassam |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population As Of: | 2014 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 25052 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Timezone: | GMT |
Utc Offset: | +0 |
Coordinates: | 5.4833°N -37°W |
Bongo is a town in south-eastern Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of Grand-Bassam Department in Sud-Comoé Region, Comoé District.
Bongo was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished. It is in fact a gathering of four different villages. The division is based on the will of the well-known rubber company, SAPH, to set dwelling places for its workers. Among the villages, there are Bongo, which comprises V1, and Bongo-Village (V1 and Bongo-Village form one place), V2, commonly known as Point d'Eau (because of the brook flowing through it), and V3, named G12 (because of its geographic location between the 25 hectares of rubber trees identified as G11 and the other 25 hectares of rubber trees identified as G13). The fourth village is CU (Centre Usine). That name is due to the fact that the rubber transformation factory is located in this village. CU is commonly known as Dragage.[2]
In 2014, the population of the sub-prefecture of Bongo was 25,052.[3]
The eight villages of the sub-prefecture of Bongo and their population in 2014 are:[3]