Cotonou feels like a pretty small city, probably largely because our house is a five-minute drive from work, and the restaurants and stores we usually frequent aren’t much further away. But with a population of 700,000, Cotonou is not actually all that small. Population wise it’s about the size of a mid-size American city, like Indianapolis. During a recent lunch at a rooftop restaurant, we were reminded by how far the city actually stretches.