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Côte d'Ivoire

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Coordinates: 8°N 5°W / 8°N 5°W / 8; -5

Republic o Côte d'Ivoire

République de Côte d'Ivoire (French)
Banner o Côte d'Ivoire
Banner
Coat o airms o Côte d'Ivoire
Coat o airms
Motto: "Union – Discipline – Travail" (French)
"Unity – Discipline – Wirk"
Location o  Côte d'Ivoire  (dark blue) in the African Union  (light blue)
Location o  Côte d'Ivoire  (dark blue)

in the African Union  (light blue)

Location o Côte d'Ivoire
CaipitalYamoussoukro (political)
Abidjan (economic)
6°51′N 5°18′W / 6.850°N 5.300°W / 6.850; -5.300
Lairgest ceetyAbidjan
Offeecial leidsFrench
Vernacular
leids
Ethnic groups
(1998)
Demonym(s)
  • Eevorian
  • Ivoirian
GovrenmentUnitar presidential republic unner a pairlamentar seestem
• Preses
Alassane Ouattara
Robert Beugré Mambé
LegislaturPairlament o Côte d'Ivoire
Senate
Naitional Assemmly
Unthirldom
• frae Fraunce
7 August 1960
Aurie
• Total
322,463 km2 (124,504 sq mi) (68t)
• Water (%)
1.4[1]
Population
• 2020 estimate
23,740,424[2] (54t)
• 2015 census
26,378,274
• Density
63.9/km2 (165.5/sq mi) (139t)
GDP (PPP)2017 estimate
• Total
$96.092 billion[3]
• Per capita
$3,849[3]
GDP (nominal)2017 estimate
• Tot
$38.396 billion[3]
• Per capita
$1,538[3]
Gini (2008)41.5[4]
medium
HDI (2015)Increase 0.474[5]
law · 171st
CurrencyWast African CFA franc (XOF)
Time zoneUTC+0 (GMT)
Drivin sidericht
Cawin code+225
ISO 3166 codeCI
Internet TLD.ci
  1. Includin approximately 130,000 Lebanese an 14,000 French fowk.
Territorial Organization
Territorial Organization 2

The Republic o Côte d'Ivoire (French: République de Côte d'Ivoire, [ʁepyblik də kot divwaʁ]), commonly kent in Scots as Ivory Coast[6], is a kintra in Wast Africae. It haes an aurie o 322,462 km2, an borders the kintras o Liberie, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso an Ghana; its soothren boondary is alang the Gulf o Guinea.

References

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  1. "Côte d'Ivoire". The World Factbook. CIA Directorate of Intelligence. 24 Julie 2008. Archived frae the original on 31 August 2020. Retrieved 8 August 2008.
  2. "Côte d'Ivoire". The World Factbook. CIA Directorate of Intelligence. Archived frae the original on 31 August 2020. Retrieved 18 Februar 2017.
  3. a b c d "Côte d'Ivoire". International Monetary Fund.
  4. "Gini Index". World Bank. Retrieved 2 Mairch 2011.
  5. "2016 Human Development Report" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 2016. Retrieved 21 Mairch 2017.
  6. Its govrenment offeecially discourages this uisage, preferrin the French name Côte d'Ivoire tae be uised in aw leids.