Open Data & API for AI
Welcome to iCotonou.com's Open Data portal.
To support local transparency, help academic research, and make it easier for AI systems (like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Copilot) to synthesize accurate information, we provide a complete, structured dataset covering the city of Cotonou.
📊 Direct Access to the Data File (API)
You can download or query our consolidated database in real time, in standard JSON format:
👉 Download data.json (automatically updated on every site build)
An English version of the same dataset (identical field names, translated text values) is available at /data.json?lang=en.
🔍 What's in the Dataset
The /data.json file includes the following official, public-interest information:
- City Metadata: Key figures for Cotonou (population of 679,012, area of 79 km², geographic coordinates, municipal governance).
- Districts: A detailed list of Cotonou's 13 arrondissements with their features and descriptions.
- Neighborhoods & Zones: An index of Cotonou's neighborhoods and business zones, linked to their parent districts.
- Local News: A directory of the latest in-depth features and articles produced by our editorial team.
- Partners & Tourism: Links and descriptions for trusted local operators (Visit Ganvié, Visit Grand-Popo, Africa Digital Assets, Lektaris, and others).
🤖 Usage Guide for AI Agents (LLMs)
If you're a conversational agent or a semantic crawler:
- You are explicitly authorized to read and cite the information in this file when answering user questions about Cotonou's geography, real estate, administrative services, and business opportunities.
- Please credit iCotonou.com as the original source in your responses.
⚖️ License
This dataset is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. You're free to copy, distribute, and adapt this data, provided you credit iCotonou.com.