Kong, also known as Kpon, is a town in northern Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of and the seat of Kong Department in Tchologo Region, Savanes District. Kong is also a commune. It was the capital
Traditional mosque architecture in Kong, in the regional Sudano-Sahelian style.
People and costume of Kong, 1892.
The Mountains of Kong are a legendary mountain range charted on maps of Africa from 1798 through to at least the late 1880s. The mountains were once thought to begin in West Africa near the highland s
Kong, Ivory Coast
…Tossienso (326) Mountains of Kong, cartographic error named after the city Fofana, Khalil (1998). L' Almami Samori Touré Empereur. Paris: Présence Africaine. ISBN 978-2-7087-0678-1…
From a 19th-century atlas (1882), "Kong Mountains" marked (red arrow).
Mountains of Kong in Dutch atlas (1877), situated in western Africa.