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Lome city overview
Lome is a city in Togo shaped by its region, population, local economy, landmarks, climate and civic history. This overview summarizes the city itself: where it sits, what defines it, which places anchor its identity and why it matters within the wider country.
City facts
Known forLome, Capital city in Togo, Lome planning base 3, Lome planning base 4
RegionTogoTogo
Time zoneAfrica/Lomelocal time
Founded1884historical origin
City history
Togoland was thus created as an entity of international law within the German colonial empire on 5 July 1884, by the Treaty of Togoville, signed by Gustav Nachtigal and King Mlapa III.
But, if the infrastructure set up by the Germans - which consisted of a post office in 1890, the telephone in 1894, the cathedral in 1904, a bank in 1906 and the intercontinental telegraph.
The city was founded by the Ewes and expanded in the 19th century by German, British and African traders, becoming the capital of Togoland in 1897.
Lomé benefited from 1904 from a port that made it the only maritime contact point of Togo, ruining its rival, Aného, until then much more important.
From this development, a network of railways could be deployed: to Aného in 1905, to Kpalimé in 1907 and to Atakpamé in 1909.
Investments stopped, like the Northern Railway, definitively stopped in Blitta in 1934.
From the mid-1970s, investments became more and more gigantic, but not always in well-targeted areas, Togo, a small open country and hub of trade between its powerful neighbors, did not have the protected market.
The calm and sparsely inhabited Loméen coastline began to be populated rapidly.
All the "useful Togo" was now organized in a funnel around Lomé, whose preponderance on the Togolese urban network was definitively established and growth assured.
It is also quite exceptional that an African capital has been so marked by its indigenous bourgeoisie, both in the production practices of urban space, so original in Lomé, and in the singularities of.
The French renewed the infrastructure left by the Germans, repairing railways, building more roads, constructing a new quay, etc.
It was only after World War II, following a decade of postwar stagnation, that boom times resumed in Lomé. Independence The population of the city increased rapidly in the second half of the 20th.
At the same time, the railways were allowed to deteriorate, even though they had an important role, especially for serving the outlying districts of the city.
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Lome
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Capital city in Togo
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Lome planning base 3
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Lome planning base 4
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Lome planning base 5
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Stay overview
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Hotels & areas
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Rental cars
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Transport notes
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Crowds
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