Dantokpa Market

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to navigation Jump to search

This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (January 2017) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

Machine translation like Deepl or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary (using German): Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Exact name of German article]]; see its history for attribution.
You should also add the template {{Translated page}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

The Dantokpa Market, or simply Tokpa, is the largest open-air market in West Africa,^[1]^[2] located in Cotonou, Benin. It is one of the most important retailing areas in Benin, covering over 20 hectares. It is also economically important for the country, with a reported commercial turnover of over a billion CFA Francs a day.^{[citation needed]}

References[edit]

^ "Mourides et Yorubas, maîtres du commerce transfrontalier ouest-africain". www.ouestaf.com (in French). Ouestaf News. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
^ Géraud. "Le marché Dantokpa de Cotonou". cotonou-ca-bouge.net. Retrieved 7 June 2012.

This Benin-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dantokpa_Market&oldid=868224979"

Hidden categories: