COTE D' IVOIRE

LOCATION

• West Africa

Neighboring countries:
Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina, Ghana, & an ocean, South Atlantic Ocean

The official language is French but there are about 70 other languages

The most common gesture is the handshake

French Colony
An 1843–44 treaty made Ivory Coast a protectorate of France and in 1893, it became a French colony as part of the European scramble for Africa. Ivory Coast became independent on 7 August 1960.