Country: Ivory Coast

Côte d'Ivoire, in its full form the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (RCI), is a country located in Africa, in the western part of the Gulf of Guinea. It roughly takes the shape of a square about 600 km on each side5. With an area of 322,462 km², it is bordered to the northwest by Mali, to the northeast by Burkina Faso, to the east by Ghana, to the southwest by Liberia, to the west-northwest by Guinea, and to the south by the Atlantic Ocean. The population is estimated at 29,389,150 inhabitants in 2021.