IVORY COAST

Country in West Africa, on the coast of West Africa. Ghana is bordered to the east, and Guinea and Liberia from the west, Mali and Burkina Faso to the north, and supervised from the south on the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean.

And return to the call that traders Alavriqin were collecting elephant tusks and they offer for sale in piles on the coasts Vokhaddt name of the ivory trade. Divided into the Republic of Ivory Coast to 58 states.

Has won its independence from France in 1960; but it still retains strong links with them. The Republic of Ivory Coast, one of the richest countries in the region, thanks to the diversity of its agricultural sector, and attention to export crops, and to encourage foreign investment. However, the country's economy affected by the severe because of falling cocoa prices and political turmoil,

That swept the country, in 1999 and 2000.

Vocational trades:

Agriculture craft basic population, was allocated the northern part of the country in the production of agricultural yields of food such as rice, corn, yams and bananas, while the results in the southern part of rubber, cocoa, coffee, and the Ivory Coast the third in coffee production and fifth in the production of pineapples, bananas, and cultivated cotton and sugar cane, and a timber wealth contribute to a great five exports, produces tin, iron, manganese, gold and diamonds from the mines of the Ivory Coast.

Population:

Ivory Coast's population of elements, including the Negro minority of whites, the population consists of a large number of tribes including Alpauli 23%, 18% of my house, Sanobo 15%, Malinke 11%, others (including some 200,000 Lebanese).Language:

The official language is French, and learned Arabic in Islamic schools in the north and prevail for several dialects of the most important language Alpmbara.

The land of the Ivory Coast is made up of coastal plains about one-third area, the stretch next to the beaches, and fertile plains, fertile grow where forests, after the plains the land rises gradually towards the west, and in this region plateau Jerantah old cover in the northern part of gardens, savannah, and make their collapsed several Ivory Coast north to south.

Subtropical climate of the coast more than temperature and humidity, and the south has two seasons separated by two Matrin Javan, and there is the north tropical climate is less rain and the heat from the south.

Political capital city of Yamoussoukro, while its largest city and economic center city of Abidjan in the south near the coast is the most important cities of Bouake, and Jajnoa.

Yamoussoukro the official capital of the Ivory Coast and a population of 200.659 inhabitants (according to the statistics of 2005) and is located 240 km north of Abidjan on a series of plains and plateaus.