Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
África Occidental
Vibrant · Coastal · Rising
Côte d'Ivoire produces roughly 40% of the world's cocoa supply — making it the single largest source of the raw ingredient in most of the world's chocolate.
Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Abidjan, Bouaké, Daloa — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Yamoussoukro is Côte d'Ivoire's official capital, home to the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace — the world's largest church by volume, built by President Houphouët-Boigny in his hometown at enormous expense and consecrated by Pope John Paul II in 1990 — while Abidjan remains the economic capital, West Africa's most dynamic commercial city.
El idioma oficial es francés, que refleja el patrimonio cultural del país y lo conecta con una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Côte d'Ivoire se contacta mediante el código +225. Ivorians navigated a decade of political division between 2002 and 2011 along north-south lines that broadly reflected Muslim and Christian community boundaries, and the post-conflict reconciliation process shaped a cultural conversation about Ivorian identity that has produced some of the continent's most thoughtful art, music (coupé-décalé is a global export), and literature.
Côte d'Ivoire comparte sus fronteras con Guinea, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Liberia, Mali. El tráfico rodado circula por la derecha, en consonancia con la convención de
La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.
Attiéké — fermented cassava couscous with a slightly sour taste — served with fish and tomato sauce is Côte d'Ivoire's most distinctive dish, a preparation unique to this country that requires a 3-day fermentation process and whose export from Abidjan to the Ivorian diaspora in Europe has made it a niche gourmet product despite its street-food origins.
Football is Côte d'Ivoire's consuming passion, and the 'golden generation' of Didier Drogba, Yaya Touré, and Kolo Touré — who were simultaneously key players at Chelsea, Manchester City, and other European giants in the 2000s — created a national team that won the Africa Cup of Nations in 2015 and 2024 while hosting the tournament between those victories.
Taï National Park protects the largest primary tropical rainforest remaining in West Africa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site where Jane Goodall-inspired chimpanzee research has documented tool use, medicinal plant self-treatment, and cultural transmission of learned behaviours that has contributed significantly to scientific understanding of primate cognition.