Geography Of Cote d'Ivoire

Location	Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Ghana and Liberia
Geographic coordinates	8 00 N, 5 00 W
Map references	africa
Area	total: 322,460 sq km water: 4,460 sq km land: 318,000 sq km
Area comparative	slightly larger than New Mexico
Land boundaries	total: 3,110 km border countries: Burkina Faso 584 km, Ghana 668 km, Guinea 610 km, Liberia 716 km, Mali 532 km
Coastline	515 km
Maritime claims	territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm
Climate	tropical along coast, semiarid in far north; three seasons - warm and dry (November to March), hot and dry (March to May), hot and wet (June to October)
Terrain	mostly flat to undulating plains; mountains in northwest
Elevation extremes	lowest point: Gulf of Guinea 0 m highest point: Mont Nimba 1,752 m
Natural resources	petroleum, natural gas, diamonds, manganese, iron ore, cobalt, bauxite, copper, hydropower
Land use	arable land: 9.75% permanent crops: 13.84% other: 76.41% (2001)
Irrigated land	730 sq km (1998 est.)
Natural hazards	coast has heavy surf and no natural harbors; during the rainy season torrential flooding is possible
Environment - current issues	deforestation (most of the country's forests - once the largest in West Africa - have been heavily logged); water pollution from sewage and industrial and agricultural effluents
Environment - international agreements	party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography note	most of the inhabitants live along the sandy coastal region; apart from the capital area, the forested interior is sparsely populated

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This information was reproduced in part from the CIA World Fact book.

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