Ivory Coast

**Ivory Coast** or **Côte d'Ivoire**, officially the **Republic of Côte d'Ivoire**, is a country in West Africa.

The capital of Côte d'Ivoire is Yamoussoukro but its biggest city is Abidjan. Other cities can be found at List of cities in Côte d'Ivoire.

## Geography

It borders the Gulf of Guinea to the south and five other African nations. Liberia is to the southwest, Guinea to the northwest, Mali to the north-northwest, Burkina Faso to the north-northeast, and Ghana to the east.

## Districts

Ivory Coast is divided into 12 districts and 2 district-level cities. The districts were created in 2011.

|scope="col" width="15"|Map no.|scope="col" width="140"|District|scope="col" width="140"|District capital|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|**Abidjan** (_District Autonome d'Abidjan_)|||||
|2|**Bas-Sassandra** (_District du Bas-Sassandra_)|San-Pédro||||
|3|**Comoé** (_District du Comoé_)|Abengourou||||
|4|**Denguélé** (_District du Denguélé_)|Odienné||||
|5|**Gôh-Djiboua** (_District du Gôh-Djiboua_)|Gagnoa||||
|6|**Lacs** (_District des Lacs_)|Dimbokro||||
|7|**Lagunes** (_District des Lagunes_)|Dabou||||
|8|**Montagnes** (_District des Montagnes_)|Man||||
|9|**Sassandra-Marahoué** (_District du Sassandra-Marahoué_)|Daloa||||
|10|**Savanes** (_District des Savanes_)|Korhogo||||
|11|**Vallée du Bandama** (_District de la Vallée du Bandama_)|Bouaké||||
|12|**Woroba** (_District du Woroba_)|Séguéla||||
|13|**Yamoussoukro** (_District Autonome du Yamoussoukro_)|||||
|14|**Zanzan** (_District du Zanzan_)|Bondoukou||||

## Related pages

- Côte d'Ivoire at the Olympics
- Côte d'Ivoire national football team
- List of rivers of Côte d'Ivoire

## References

**Notes**

## Infobox (country)

- **conventional long name**: Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
- **common name**: Côte d'Ivoire
- **native name**: _République de Côte d'Ivoire_
- **image flag**: Flag of Côte d'Ivoire.svg
- **image coat**: File:Coat of arms of Ivory Coast (2).svg
- **national motto**:

- **national anthem**: _L'Abidjanaise_

- **image map**: Côte d'Ivoire (orthographic projection).svg
- **image map2**: Ivory Coast - Location Map (2013) - CIV - UNOCHA.svg
- **capital**: Yamoussoukro <small>(political)</small>
Abidjan <small>(economic) </small>
- **largest city**: Abidjan
- **official languages**: French
- **national languages**: Bété • Dioula • Baoulé • Abron • Agni • Cebaara Senufo • others
- **ethnic groups year**: 2018
- **government type**: Unitary state, Unitary Presidential system, presidential republic under a parliamentary system
- **leader title1**: List of heads of state of Ivory Coast, President
- **leader name1**: Alassane Ouattara
- **leader title2**: Vice President of Ivory Coast, Vice President
- **leader name2**: Tiémoko Meyliet Koné
- **leader title3**: List of heads of government of Ivory Coast, Prime Minister
- **leader name3**: Robert Beugré Mambé
- **legislature**: Parliament of Ivory Coast
- **upper house**: Senate (Ivory Coast), Senate
- **lower house**: National Assembly (Ivory Coast), National Assembly
- **sovereignty type**: Independence
- **established event1**: from France
- **established date1**: 7 August 1960
- **area km2**: 322,463
- **area rank**: 68th
- **area sq mi**: 124,502
- **percent water**: 1.4
- **population estimate**: 23,740,424
- **population census**: 24,905,843
- **population estimate year**: 2018
- **population estimate rank**: 54th
- **population census year**: 2015
- **population density km2**: 63.9
- **population density sq mi**: 191
- **population density rank**: 139th
- **gdp ppp**: $106.412 billion
- **gdp ppp year**: 2018
- **gdp ppp per capita**: $4,155
- **gdp nominal**: $48.142 billion
- **gdp nominal year**: 2018
- **gdp nominal per capita**: $1,879
- **gini**: 41.5
- **gini year**: 2008
- **hdi**: 0.492
- **hdi year**: 2017
- **hdi change**: increase
- **hdi rank**: 170th
- **currency**: West African CFA franc
- **currency code**: XOF
- **time zone**: Greenwich Mean Time, GMT
- **utc offset**: +0
- **drives on**: right
- **calling code**: +225
- **iso3166code**: CI
- **cctld**: .ci
- **footnote a**: Including approximately 130,000 Lebanese people, Lebanese and 14,000 French people, French people.