page_title: Lomé
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Lomé / Economy
caption_attribution_description: The Lomé Grand Marché with the Cathédrale du Sacré Coeur. Lomé, Togo
context_page_description: Lomé is the capital and largest city of Togo. It has an urban population of 837,437 while there were 1,477,660 permanent residents in its metropolitan area as of the 2010 census. Located on the Gulf of Guinea, Lomé is the country's administrative and industrial center, which includes an oil refinery, and its chief port, where it exports coffee, cocoa, copra, and oil palm kernels.
context_section_description: Located 200 kilometres (124 miles) from Accra, Ghana and 150 kilometres (93 miles) from Cotonou, Benin, Lomé is an important port, including a free trade zone opened in 1968. It exports phosphates, coffee, cocoa, cotton and palm oil, much of the transit going to the neighbouring countries of Ghana, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. The port also holds an oil refinery.
  The city in general has great potential, because tourism is growing in the country.
caption: Lomé Grand Market
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