Minignan
Sign in to saveMinignan (also spelled Maninian) is a town in north-western Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of and the seat of Minignan Department. It is also a commune and the seat of the Folon Region in Denguélé District.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Minignan
- Settlement.other_name
- Maninian
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town, sub-prefecture, and commune
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ivory Coast
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Ivory Coast
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Denguélé
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Folon
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Minignan
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2014
- Settlement.population_total
- 14521
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 24251
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Minignan (also spelled Maninian) is a town in north-western Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of and the seat of Minignan Department. It is also a commune and the seat of the Folon Region in Denguélé District.
==History== The French explorer René Caillié stopped at Minignan in 1827 on his journey from Boké, in present-day Guinea, to Timbuktu in Mali. He was travelling in a caravan transporting kola nuts to Djenné. He described the village in his book Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo.
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