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Côte d'Ivoire
Location marker · geographic overview
8° N / 5° WTHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Yamoussoukro
- Population
- 31,934,230 2024
- Area
- 322,463 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- French
- Currency
- West African CFA franc (XOF)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is a country in West Africa, visited for its beaches, rainforest, wildlife and tourist villages. Resort lodgings in coastal areas draw many visitors.
Landscape & landmarks
Fine beaches, tourist villages, rainforests and wildlife preserves are the principal attractions of Côte d'Ivoire. […] Taï National Park has the largest tropical rainforest in West Africa. […] Comoë National Park is the biggest and best-known national park in Côte d'Ivoire. It has plenty of wildlife including birds, elephants, giraffes, lions, monkeys and antelopes.Read the see section ↗
Food & everyday culture
Alloco is simply fried plantains, mostly accompanied by a spicy vegetable sauce and boiled eggs.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-18. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Western Africa
- Calling code
- +225
- Internet domain
- .ci
- Land border codes
- BFA, GHA, GIN, LBR, MLI
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .ci. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.