page_title: Dabou Department
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Dabou Department / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Locator map for Dabou Department in Côte d'Ivoire when it was created in 1998. Dabou Department kept these boundaries until 2005, but other boundary changes to subdivisions of Côte d'Ivoire began to be made in 2000.
context_page_description: Dabou Department is a department of Grands-Ponts Region in Lagunes District, Ivory Coast. In 2014, its population was 148,874 and its seat is the settlement of Dabou. The sub-prefectures of the department are Dabou, Lopou, and Toupah.
context_section_description: Dabou Department was created in 1998 as a second-level subdivision via a split-off from Abidjan Department. At its creation, it was part of Lagunes Region.
  In 2005, Dabou Department was divided to create Sikensi Department.
  In 2011, districts were introduced as new first-level subdivisions of Ivory Coast. At the same time, regions were reorganised and became second-level subdivisions and all departments were converted into third-level subdivisions. At this time, Dabou Department became part of Grands-Ponts Region in Lagunes District.
caption: Dabou Department upon its creation in 1998. It kept these boundaries until 2005, but other subdivision boundary changes began to be made in 2000.
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