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The Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire [a] and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital city of Yamoussoukro is located in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is the port city of Abidjan .
National Olympic Committee of Ivory Coast (French: Comité National Olympique de Côte d'Ivoire) (IOC code: CIV) is the National Olympic Committee representing Ivory ...
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's fifteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics except Moscow 1980, as well as nation's joining the American led-boycott.
Ivory Coast (also known as Côte d'Ivoire, its official IOC name) has sent athletes to all Summer Olympic Games held since 1964 except for 1980 which it boycotted in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The country first won a silver medal in the men's 400 metres in 1984.
Abidjan (/ ˌ æ b ɪ ˈ dʒ ɑː n / AB-ih-JAHN, French:; N'ko: ߊߓߌߖߊ߲߬) is the largest city and the former capital of Ivory Coast.As of the 2021 census, Abidjan's population was 6.3 million, [3] which is 21.5 percent of the overall population of the country, making it the sixth most populous city proper in Africa, after Lagos, Cairo, Kinshasa, Dar es Salaam, and Johannesburg.
The Ivory Coast national football team (French: Équipe de football de Côte d'Ivoire, recognized as the Côte d'Ivoire by FIFA [3]) represents Ivory Coast in men's international football. Nicknamed the Elephants , the team is managed by the Ivorian Football Federation (FIF).
In February 2004 the United Nations established the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) "to facilitate the implementation by the Ivorian parties of the peace agreement signed by them in January 2003". [14] Most of the fighting ended by late 2004, with the country split between a rebel-held north and a government-held south.
The primary rebel force in the civil war was the New Forces of Ivory Coast (FNCI, Forces nouvelles de Côte d'Ivoire), created in December 2002 as a coalition between the Patriotic Movement of Ivory Coast (MPCI, Mouvement patriotique de Côte d'Ivoire), the Ivorian Popular Movement of the Great West (MPIGO, Mouvement populaire ivoirien du Grand ...