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unusual facts about Ivory Coast


National Order of the Ivory Coast

The National Order of the Ivory Coast (sometimes simply mentioned as National Order) is the highest state order of knighthood of the Ivory Coast.


2002 WAFU Nations Cup

The tournament was finally arranged for Sep 18–29, 2002, to be held in Ivory Coast (in Abidjan and Bouaké; the latter venue being added at the last moment).

2013 Africa Cup

Division 1C was held between 22 and 29 June 2013, at the Ecole Supérieur des Travaux Publics - Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny Sud in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast.

Achatina achatina

The species is believed to be native to West Africa, within 100–190 miles of the coasts of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, Ghana, and Nigeria.

Anoh Attoukora

Anoh Apollinaire Attoukora Sfondo (born June 20, 1989 in Adjamé) is an Ivorian footballer currently under contract for PAU FC.

Bebearia zonara

It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Mayumbe, Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, Ituri, Tshopo, Equateur, Cataractes, Kasai, Sankuru and Lualaba) and Uganda (Bwamba and Toro).

Dibi Paul Stephane

Stéphane Paul Dibi (born December 28, 1990 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast) is a Ivorian football He currently plays for MC Alger in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.

Dijilly Arsene Dit Patrick Vouho

Djilly Arsène Dit Patrick Vouho (born 25 June 1987 in Seguela) is an Ivorian footballer who plays as a Striker for Georgian Umaglesi Liga club Dinamo Tbilisi.

Élie Kroupi

Éli Verges Napoles Kroupi Zahi (born 18 October 1979 in Sassandra) is a French-Ivorian football forward who currently plays for Ourouba Club Fujairah in UAE Second Division.

FC Bibo

F.C. Kossou Bibó, or commonly known as F.C. Bibó is an Ivorian semi-professional football team based in Kossou, Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast.

John Peter Bell

He was concurrently appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Mali and Niger then to Upper Volta and to the Ivory Coast.

Jores Okore

Okore was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast; he moved to Denmark with his family at the age of 3, where he played football from the age of 8 with B.93 in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen.

Kinapeya Kone

Kinapeya Romeo Kone (born 1 September 1979 in Korhogo, Ivory Coast) is an Ivorian judoka.

Les Bronzés

Gigi, Jerome, Christiane, Jean-Claude, and Bernard visit a resort in the Ivory Coast, the Club Med village of Assinie.

Mbre language

Mbre, also spelled Bre, Bεrε, Pre, is an endangered language spoken not far from the city of Bouaké, Ivory Coast.

Papalolo

He got into acting through joining the theatre group of the late theatre icon, Adedeji Hubert Ogunde, with whom he performed across the West African coast (Republic of Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Liberia) in the 1960s.

Phares Oluoch Kanindo

With POK Music Stores, Kanindo produced large varieties of music which sold in the entire West and South Africa, the countries included, Ivory Coast, Zambia, Malawi, Ghana, Nigeria and even the Brooklyn of New York City and Soho Square in London.

Philippe Kouassi

René Philippe Kouassi (born 14 December 1979 in Adzopé, Côte d'Ivoire) is an Ivorian archer.

Phyllocrania paradoxa

Phyllocrania paradoxa have a wide range across the African continent and its islands and can be found in Angola, South Europe, Cameroon, Cape Province, Congo basin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Transvaal, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Séry Wawa

Séry Wawa died on 12 December 2013, aged 70, in his hometown of Abidjan, Lagunes, Ivory Coast.

Thierry Doubai

Moussé Doubai Tapé or Thierry Doubai (born 1 July 1988 in Adjamé) is an Ivorian footballer who plays for French club Sochaux in Ligue 1.

Vincent Angban

Vincent Atchouailou de Paul Angban (born 2 February 1985 in Anyama) is an Ivorian footballer playing as a goalkeeper for Ivorian Premier Division club Jeunesse and English Premiership club Chelsea.


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Alain Andji

Before switching to France he set an Ivory Coast national record of 5.10 metres in June 1992 in Yerres.

Anyi people

They also inhabit Zanzan in Ivory Coast and there are small populations in Ghana.

GRB

Grebo language (ISO 639-2 language code), spoken by the Grebo people of Liberia and the Krumen of Ivory Coast.

Human trafficking in Benin

Gendarmes in the village of Porga arrested suspected traffickers trying to cross the Benin-Burkina Faso border en route to Ivory Coast with five children in April 2009, and delivered them to the court at Natitingou.

Ivory Coast Expedition

The Ivory Coast Expedition, or the Liberia Expedition, was a naval operation in 1842, launched by the United States against the West African Bereby people.

Jojo Cobbinah

Cobbinah went to a catholic school in his home country and studied in Cape Coast (Ghana), Abidjan (Ivory Coast) and Dijon (France).

Kévin Zougoula

In February 2011, played for Ivory Coast A' or the Ivory Coast B team at the 2011 African Nations Championship in Sudan.

Media of Ivory Coast

There are three foreign radio broadcasters that can be received in Ivory Coast on the FM band: RFI (Abidjan and Korhogo), Africa N°1 (Abidjan) and BBC (Abidjan).

Oumé

It is the birthplace of current Ivory Coast international footballers, Salomon Kalou and Bonaventure Kalou.

Ras Nas

These include Norwegian blues guitarist and singer Knut Reiersrud, Rolf Erik Nystrøm, Keppy Kiombile from Kilimanjaro Band, Norman Bikaka from Shada Band and drummer Uriel Seri from Ivory Coast.

Régiment d'infanterie-chars de marine

On 6 November 2004, an air attack by Ivory Coast forces on the lycée Descartes at Bouaké killed nine French soldiers and one American civilian taking refuge in this site occupied by the groupement's Train de Combat N°2.

Senari languages

Nyarafolo is spoken by 48,000 in northeast Ivory Coast around Ferkessédougou.

Tuni language

Lorhon language, a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Ivory Coast

Yamoussoukro Airport

Two Ivory Coast Sukhoi Su-25 aircraft and several Mil Mi-24 helicopters were destroyed, which was most of the country's air forces.