Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Yamoussoukro
- Region
- Africa, Western Africa
- Population
- 32,711,547 (2025)
- Area
- 322,460 km²
- Currency
- West African CFA franc (XOF)
- Languages
- French
- Calling code
- +225
- Internet domain
- .ci
- ISO codes
- CI, CIV, 384
- Time zone
- UTC
- United Nations
- Member state
Land and position
Ivory Coast covers about 322,460 square kilometres. By area it ranks 70th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Norway and a little larger than Poland. It shares a land border with 5 neighbours: Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali. Its centre lies at about 8° north, 5° west, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 32.7 million people live in Ivory Coast (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 50th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.4 percent of the world's people. On average there are 101 people to each square kilometre. About 55 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 62 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: French. A person from Ivory Coast is called Ivorian.
Money and economy
The currency is the West African CFA franc (code XOF, symbol Fr). It is also the main currency of Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo. The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 99.8 billion (2025), which is about US$ 3,050 for each person (2025).
Time
Ivory Coast uses one time zone, UTC (Africa/Abidjan). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Abidjan | 6,321,017 |
| Abobo | 1,340,083 |
| Bouaké | 832,371 |
| Korhogo | 440,926 |
| Daloa | 421,871 |
| Koumassi | 412,282 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Western Africa
Benin, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.