Map of Cote d'Ivoire

Cote d'Ivoire is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 8.0° N, 5.0° W. It shares land borders with 5 countries — Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia and Mali — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Cote d'Ivoire is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Cote d'Ivoire shares land frontiers with the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Cote d'Ivoire covers about 322,463 km² (124,504 sq mi). That makes it the 69th-largest country in the world by area and the 28th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 26 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 31,719,275, the 50th-largest in the world and the 16th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 2.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Cote d'Ivoire has an average population density of about 98 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 16th by population and 28th by area.

The seat of government is Yamoussoukro, and the official currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, Fr), and the main official language is French. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC.

Cote d'Ivoire carries the ISO country codes CI and CIV, dials on the international calling code +225 and uses the .ci internet domain.

Cote d'Ivoire shares its land borders with 5 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Ghana (capital Accra, about 33,742,380 people), Burkina Faso (capital Ouagadougou, about 24,070,553 people), Mali (capital Bamako, about 22,395,489 people), Guinea (capital Conakry, about 14,363,931 people) and Liberia (capital Monrovia, about 5,248,621 people).

By area, Cote d'Ivoire is larger than 4 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 8.0° N, 5.0° W and opens at zoom level 5, framing Cote d'Ivoire within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Yamoussoukro. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Cote d'Ivoire lies about 888 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Cote d'Ivoire keeps a single standard time zone, UTC. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +00:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, Fr).

The official language is French, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +225 and websites commonly use the .ci internet domain.

In short, Cote d'Ivoire is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Yamoussoukro. Cote d'Ivoire has a population of about 31,719,275 and covers around 322,463 km² (124,504 sq mi), ranking it 50th in the world by population and 69th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Cote d'Ivoire.

The flag of Ivory Coast is composed of three equal vertical bands of orange, white and green.

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