2017 Jeux de la Francophonie

VIIIèmes Jeux de la Francophonie
Host city Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Nations participating 77 (expected)
Athletes participating 4,000 (expected)
Opening ceremony July 21, 2017
Closing ceremony July 30, 2017
Main venue Stade Félix Houphouet-Boigny
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The 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie, also known as VIIIèmes Jeux de la Francophonie (French for 8th Francophone Games), will be held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, from July 21-30. This will be the first edition of the games to be hosted in Ivory Coast.[1]

Since 2011, it will be the third international competition held in Abidjan, after the 2013 World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships and the 2013 AfroBasket.

Venues

Ten cultural and sports venues will be situated in three geographic zones in Abidjan :

Zone A (Marcory and Treichville)

Zone B (Le Plateau)

Zone C (Cocody)

Participants

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  •  Andorra
  •  Armenia
  •  Austria
  •  Benin
  •  Bulgaria
  •  Burkina Faso
  •  Burundi
  •  Cambodia
  •  Cameroon
  •  Canada
  •  Cape Verde
  •  Central African Republic
  •  Chad
  •  Comoros

  •  Congo
  •  Côte d'Ivoire
  •  Cyprus
  •  Djibouti
  •  DR Congo
  •  Egypt
  •  Estonia
  •  Equatorial Guinea
  •  France
  •  Gabon
  •  Guinea
  •  Guinea-Bissau
  •  Haiti
  •  Japan

  •  Lebanon
  •  Luxembourg
  •  Macedonia
  •  Madagascar
  •  Mali
  •  Mauritania
  •  Mauritius
  •  Monaco
  •  Montenegro
  •  Morocco
  •  New Brunswick
  •  Niger
  •  Poland
  •  Qatar

  •  Quebec
  •  Romania
  •  Rwanda
  •  Saint Lucia
  •  Senegal
  •  Seychelles
  •  Slovakia
  •   Switzerland
  •  Togo
  •  Tunisia
  •  Uruguay
  •  Vanuatu
  •  Vietnam
  •  Wallonia

Events

References

External links

Games 2017 at jeux.francophonie.org
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