!!!Cote d'Ivoire: Geography
||Location|Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Ghana and Liberia
||Geographic Coordinates|8 00 N, 5 00 W[{GoogleMap location='8.0,-5.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''322,463 sq km\\''land: ''318,003 sq km\\''water: ''4,460 sq km\\[[__''Verified in 8 databases''__]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''3,458 km\\''border countries: ''Burkina Faso 545 km, Ghana 720 km, Guinea 816 km, Liberia 778 km, Mali 599 km
||Coastline|515 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Gulf of Guinea 0 m\\''highest point: ''Monts Nimba 1,752 m
||Highest Mountains|__As there is no entry in [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com] we are listing mountain list of [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org] only:__\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Mont Zo 1144 m; Mont No 1070 m; Mont Zan 1066 m; Sangrou 1051 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] 
||Terrain|mostly flat to undulating plains; mountains in northwest
||Natural Hazards|coast has heavy surf and no natural harbors; during the rainy season torrential flooding is possible
||Natural Resource|petroleum, natural gas, diamonds, manganese, iron ore, cobalt, bauxite, copper, gold, nickel, tantalum, silica sand, clay, cocoa beans, coffee, palm oil, hydropower
||Land Use|''arable land: ''8.99%\\''permanent crops: ''13.65%\\''other: ''77.36% (2011)
||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)
||Irrigated Land|727.5 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|81.14 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|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, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Abidjan; Bouake; Daloa; San-Pedro; Yamoussoukro\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Abidjan; Abobo; Bouake; Daloa; San-Pedro\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/Africa/Cote_d_Ivoire/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|most of the inhabitants live along the sandy coastal region; apart from the capital area, the forested interior is sparsely populated