Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast (officially Republic of Côte d'Ivoire) is a country in Western Africa, with its capital at Yamoussoukro, and is home to roughly 31.9M people.
French is the official language; the currency in circulation is West African CFA franc (Fr); people from here are called Ivorian.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »It is the world's largest producer of cocoa beans.
- »Yamoussoukro's basilica is among the largest church buildings in the world.
> BORDERS_
Ivory Coast touches five neighbours: Burkina Faso to the northeast, Ghana to the east, Guinea to the northwest, Liberia to the west and Mali to the north. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Yamoussoukro was made capital in 1983, the home village of the first president, and holds a basilica modelled on St Peter's. Abidjan remains the economic centre and holds most embassies.
> SCALE_
321,920 km² (124,294 sq mi), 67th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Norway.
Population 31,934,230, 50th of 198 on file. That averages 99 per km² (257 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
Orange for the savannah of the north, white for peace, green for the forests of the south. It is Ireland's flag reversed, which occasionally causes confusion.