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.
- »It is the world's largest producer of cocoa beans.
- »Yamoussoukro's basilica is among the largest church buildings in the world.
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.
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.
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).
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.