Côte d'Ivoire (the Ivory Coast) is a Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa south of the Sahara Desert, is the term used to describe those countries of Africa that are not part of North Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa is also known as Black Africa or as Dark Africa (though some consider these terms to be offensive). Sub-Saharan corresponds... sub-Saharan nation in southern West Africa is the region of western Africa generally considered to include these countries: Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Côte dIvoire (Ivory Coast) Equatorial Guinea Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) Senegal Sierra Leone Togo Chad, Mauritania, and... West Africa located at 8 00°N, 5 00°W. The country is shaped like a A square as a geometric shape is described and illustrated at square (geometry). There are other concepts derived from it: the geometric unit square; the square units of measurement, such as the square mile, square meter, square kilometer, square inch, and square megameter; the square waveform. But a square is... square and borders the The gigantic Gulf of Guinea is the part of the Atlantic southwest of Africa. The south coast of western Africa, to north of this gulf was historically called Upper Guinea. The west coast of southern Africa, to the east of this gulf, was historically called Lower Guinea. Today, the name... Gulf of Guinea in the north The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one-fifth of its surface. The oceans name, derived from Greek mythology, means the Sea of Atlas. This ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending in a north-south direction and is divided into the North Atlantic... Atlantic Ocean to the south (515km of coastline) and five other World map showing location of Africa A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest continent in both area and population, after Eurasia. At about 30,244,050 km2 (11,677,240 mi2) including its adjacent islands, it covers 20.3 percent of the total land... African nations on the other three sides, with a total of 3,110km of Border has several different, but related meanings: Generic borders A border can consist of a margin around the edge of something, such as a lawn, garden, photograph, or sheet of paper. Horticultural borders A herbaceous border comprises a narrow strip of plants along the edge of a garden path or... borders: The Republic of Liberia is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea and Côte dIvoire. It has recently been afflicted by two civil wars (1989–1996 and 1999–2003) that have displaced hundreds of thousands of its citizens and destroyed... Liberia to the southwest (716km), The Republic of Guinea is a nation of northwest Africa. National motto: Travail, Justice, Solidarité (French: Work, Justice, Solidarity) Official language French (official), Fula, Arabic, others Capital and largest city Conakry Capitals coordinates 9° 30′ N, 13° 43′ W President Lansana Conté Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo... Guinea to the northwest (610km), The Republic of Mali is a country in west Africa, formerly a French colony. National motto: Un peuple, un but, une foi (French: One people, one goal, one faith) Official language French (official), Bambara, others Capital Bamako President Amadou Toumani Touré Prime Minister Ousmane Issoufi Maïga Area  - Total... Mali to the north-northeast (532km), and The Republic of Ghana is a nation of Africa, specifically West Africa within Sub-Saharan Africa. It borders Côte dIvoire to the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo to the east, and borders the Gulf of Guinea to its south. National motto: Freedom and Justice Official language... Ghana to the east (668km). In total, Côte d'Ivoire comprises 322,460km,² of which 318,000km² is land and 4,460km² is water, which makes the country slightly larger than the A U.S. state is any one of the 50 states which have membership of the federation known as the United States of America (USA or U.S.). The separate state governments and the U.S. federal government share sovereignty. The United States Constitution allocates power between the two levels... U.S. state of This article needs cleanup. Please edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality. State nickname: Land of Enchantment Other U.S. States Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Governor Bill Richardson Official languages English and Spanish Area 315,194 km² (5th)  - Land 314... New Mexico and about the size of The Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is one of the worlds leading industrialised countries, located in the heart of Europe. Due to its central location, Germany has more neighbours than any other European country: these are Denmark in the north, Poland and the Czech Republic in the... Germany.

Côte d'Ivoire's Topography, a term in geography, has come to refer to the lay of the land, or the physiogeographic characteristics of land in terms of elevation, slope, and orientation. Terrain is a similar term, used more to describe the land itself than the study of it. Relief is often used to... terrain can generally be described as a large For alternate uses of the term, see Plateau (disambiguation). In geology and earth science, a plateau is an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat open country if the uplift was recent in geologic history. Plateaus, like mesas and buttes, are formed when land has been uplifted by tectonic... plateau rising gradually from For considerations of sea level change, in particular rise associated with possible global warming, see sea level rise. Mean sea level (MSL) is the average height of the sea, with reference to a suitable reference surface. Defining the reference level [1], however, involves complex measurement, and accurately determining MSL can... sea level in the south to almost 500m Elevation has several related meanings: Geography The elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or possibly some other fixed point). The elevation of a mountain usually refers to its summit. A topographic map shows variations in elevation by contour lines. Elevation is mainly used when... elevation in the north. The nation's natural resources have made it into a comparatively prosperous nation in The economy of Africa comprises more than 800 million people in 54 different states. Africa is by far the worlds poorest inhabited continent, and more saliently it is on average poorer than it was 25 years ago. The United Nations Human Development Report 2003 (of 175 countries) found that... Africa's economy. Côte d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer of cocoa, a major national In agriculture, a cash crop is a crop which is sold for money. The term is used to differentiate from subsistence crops, which are those fed to the producers own livestock or grown as food for the producers family. In earlier times cash crops were usually only a... cash crop; This article discusses the coffee plant; for information on the beverage see coffee (drink). Species Coffea arabica - Arabica Coffee Coffea benghalensis - Bengal coffee Coffea canephora - Robusta coffee Coffea congensis - Congo coffee Coffea excelsa - Liberian coffee Coffea gallienii - caffeine free Coffea bonnieri - caffeine free Coffea mogeneti - caffeine free Coffea liberica - Liberian... coffee is also grown.

The southeastern region of Côte d'Ivoire is marked by coastal inland See lagoon (disambiguation) for other possible meanings. A lagoon is a body of comparatively shallow salt water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed sandbank), coral reef, or similar feature. Thus, the enclosed body of water behind a barrier reef or enclosed by an atoll reef is... lagoons that starts at the Ghanaian border and stretch 300km (190 miles) along the eastern half of the coast. The southern region, especially the southwest, is densely This article is about forests as a massing of trees. For other uses of the word, see Forest (disambiguation). A dense growth of softwoods (a forest) in the Sierra Nevada Range of Northern California A forest is an area with a high density of trees (or, historically, an area set... forested and moist, and is categorized as The Eastern Guinean forests are lowland forests in West Africa, from the Atlantic coast to a few hundred kilometers inland. Areas in this ecozone include parts of Benin, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Côte dIvoire, Togo, Liberia, Nigeria, and Cameroon. It is categorized as part of the Afrotropic ecozone, tropical... eastern Guinean forest. The northern region is a Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands are a biome, generally located at subtropical and tropical latitudes. It is characterized by water : semi-arid temperature : cool and dry season, warm and dry season, hot and rainy season soil : fertile plants : grass, infrequent clumps of deciduous trees... savanna-and- Scrubland is an uncultivated region covered with scrub vegetation. Categories: Substubs ... scrubland zone of lateritic or sandy For the heavy metal band see Soil (band) Soil is the layer of minerals and organic matter, in thickness from centimetres to a metre or more, on the land surface. Its main components are mineral matter, organic matter, moisture, and air. Soils differ in the ratio of these components. Modern... soils, with Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta... vegetation decreasing from south to north within the region, categorized as Guinean montane forest. The terrain is mostly flat to undulating In geography, a plain is an expanse of land with relatively low relief. Plains may be more suitable for farming than plateaus or mountains. Famous plains can be found in North America and in Russia. List of famous plains: Australian Plains Canterbury Plains, New Zealand Indo-Gangetic plain Kanto plain... plains, with Mount Cook, a mountain in New Zealand A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. A mountain is generally much higher and steeper than a hill, but there is considerable overlap, and usage often depends on local custom. Some authorities define a mountain... mountains in the northwest. The lowest elevation in Côte d'Ivoire is at sea level on the coasts. The highest elevation is Mont Nimba is a mountain along the border of Côte dIvoire and Guinea in West Africa. At 1,752 m (5,750 ft) it is the highest point in both nations. The mountain is part of the Nimba Massif (the Guinean Backbone), straddling the border between the two... Mont Nimba, at 1,752m in the far west of the country along the border with Guinea and Liberia.

Côte d'Ivoire's also has a large Timber Timber is a term used to describe clusters of trees. It is also used to describe wood throughout its processing from the time it is cut down to the time it is used as a structural material. The word TIMBER! is also used as an exclamation when a tree... timber indestry to due its large This article is about forests as a massing of trees. For other uses of the word, see Forest (disambiguation). A dense growth of softwoods (a forest) in the Sierra Nevada Range of Northern California A forest is an area with a high density of trees (or, historically, an area set... forest coverage. The nation's Beech is a typical temperate zone hardwood The term hardwood designates wood from angiosperm trees. Hardwood contrasts with softwood, which comes from gymnosperm (coniferous) trees. They are in general of higher density and hardness, but there is considerable variation in actual wood hardness in both groups, with a large amount... hardwood exports match that of The Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil in Portuguese) is the largest and most populous country in South America, and fifth largest in the world. Spanning a vast area between central South America and the Atlantic Ocean, it borders Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela... Brazil. In recent years there has been much concern about the rapid rate of MARKO IS A FAG ... deforestation. A rainforest is a forested biome with high annual rainfall. Some cite a minimum normal annual rainfall of 2500 mm (about 100 inches or 250 centimeters), with normal rainfall at least 60 mm during each of the twelve months of the year. Others set the minimum annual rainfall barrier as... Rainforests are being destroyed at a rate sometimes cited as the highest in the world. The only forest left completely untouched in Côte d'Ivoire is Taï National Park (Parc National de Taï), a 3600km² (1400 square mile) area in the country's far southwest that is home to over 150 This article is about the ecological meaning of endemic. See also endemic (epidemiology). Endemic in biology and ecology means exclusively native to a place or biota. It is in contrast to any one of several terms meaning not native (e.g., adventive, exotic, alien, introduced, naturalized, non-native). However it... endemic species and many other An endangered species is a species whose population is so small that it is in danger of becoming extinct. Many countries have laws offering special protection to these species (forbidding hunting, banning their habitats from development, etc.) to prevent this. Only a few of the many truly endangered species actually... endangered species such as the Binomial name Hexaprotodon liberiensis (Morton, 1849) The Pygmy Hippopotamus (Hexaprotodon liberiensis) is a large mammal native to the forests and swamps of western Africa (the species name, meaning of Liberia, reflects this). It is one of only four animals in the hippopotamus family. Unlike its largest relative, the Hippopotamus, relatively... Pygmy Hippopotamus and 11 species of For the TV show Monkey see Monkey (TV series) Cynomolgus Monkey at Batu Caves, Malaysia A monkey is any member of two of the three groupings of simian primates. These two groupings are the New World and Old World monkeys. Because of their similarity to monkeys, apes such as chimpanzees... monkeys.

The The climate (ancient Greek: κλίμα) is the weather averaged over a long period of time. A descriptive saying is that climate is what you expect, weather is what you get. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) glossary definition is: Climate in a narrow sense is... climate of Côte d'Ivoire is generally warm and humid, ranging from In geography, the equator is an imaginary line drawn around a planet, halfway between the poles, where the surface of the roughly spherical planet is parallel to the axis of rotation. The equator divides the surface into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere. The latitude of the equator is... equatorial in the southern coasts to The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the two tropics: the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. This area lies approximately between 23.5° N latitude and 23.5° S... tropical in the middle and semiarid in the far north. There are three seasons: warm and dry (November to March), hot and dry (March to May), and hot and wet (June to October). Temperatures average between 25°C and 30°C and range from 10°C to 40°C.

Côte d'Ivoire makes maritime claims of 200 A nautical mile is a unit of distance, or, as physical scientists like to call it, length. It is widely used around the world for maritime and aviation purposes. The derived unit of speed is the knot, defined as one nautical mile per hour. Definition The nautical mile was historically... nautical miles as an In international maritime law, an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a seazone extending from a states coast over which the state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources. Generally a states EEZ extends 200 nautical miles (370.4 kilometers) out from its coast, except... exclusive economic zone, 12 nautical miles of territorial sea, and a 200-nautical mile The continental shelf is an area of relatively shallow sea water that is found on the edge of each continent. The shelf typically ends at a very steep slope (called the shelf break). The sea bottom below the break is the continental slope which has a much steeper gradient than... continental shelf.

Other natrual resources include Nodding donkey pumping an oil well near Sarnia, Ontario, 2001 Petroleum (from Latin petrus – rock and oleum – oil), mineral oil, or crude oil, sometimes colloquially called black gold, is a thick, dark brown or greenish flammable liquid, which exists in the upper strata of some areas of the... petroleum, Alternate meanings: Diamond (disambiguation) Diamonds (♦) is one of the four suits found in playing cards. It is the third-highest ranking suit in contract bridge. See also Red suit Categories: Anglo-American playing card games ... diamonds, General Name, Symbol, Number manganese, Mn, 25 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 7 , 4 , d Density, Hardness 7470 kg/m3, 6.0 Appearance silvery metallic Atomic properties Atomic weight 54.938049 amu Atomic radius (calc.) 140 (161) pm Covalent radius 139 pm van der Waals radius n/a... manganese, General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metal Group, Period, Block 8 (VIIIB), 4 , d Density, Hardness 7874 kg/m3, 4.0 Appearance lustrous metallic with a greyish tinge Atomic properties Atomic weight 55.845 amu Atomic radius (calc.) 140 (156) pm Covalent radius 125 pm van... iron ore, General Name, Symbol, Number cobalt, Co, 27 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 9 , 4, d Density, Hardness 8.9 Mg/m3, 5.0 Appearance metallic with grey tinge Atomic properties Atomic weight 58.933200 amu Atomic radius (calc.) 135 (152) pm Covalent radius 126 pm van der Waals... cobalt, Bauxite Bauxite is a naturally occurring, heterogeneous material composed primarily of one or more aluminium hydroxide minerals, plus various mixtures of silica, iron oxide, titania, aluminosilicate, and other impurities in minor or trace amounts. The principal aluminium hydroxide minerals found in varying proportions with bauxites are gibbsite and the polymorphs... bauxite, Copper is also the title of a web and print comic: see Copper (comic). General Name, Symbol, Number copper, Cu, 29 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11 , 4, d Density, Hardness 8920 kg/m3, 3.0 Appearance copper, metallic Atomic properties Atomic weight 63.546 amu Atomic radius... copper, and Hydropower (or waterpower) harnesses the energy of moving or falling water. This is usually in the form of hydroelectricity from a dam, but it can be used directly as a mechanical force. The term refers to a number of systems in which flowing water drives a water turbine or waterwheel... hydropower. A natural disaster is a natural event with catastrophic consequences for living things in the vicinity. The human death toll resulting from natural disasters, however, depends on many factors which are not natural - emergency preparedness, for example. This understanding is crystallized in the formulation: disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability... Natural hazards include the heavy surf and the lack of natural harbors on the coast; during the rainy season torrential A flood (in Old English flod, a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float) is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. In the sense of flowing water, the word is applied... flooding is a danger.

Côte d'Ivoire is party to these treaties: Biodiversity or biological diversity is a neologism and a portmanteau word, from bio and diversity. It is the diversity of and in living nature. Diversity, at its heart, implies the number of different kinds of objects, such as species. However, defining biodiversity or measures of biodiversity, is not so simple... Biodiversity, The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international environmental treaty produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The treaty aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gas, pursuant to its... Climate Change, Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi arid and dry sub-humid areas into desert, resulting from various factors including climatic variations and human activities. Modern desertification often arises from the demands of increased populations that settle on the land in order to grow crops and graze animals... Desertification, An endangered species is a species whose population is so small that it is in danger of becoming extinct. Many countries have laws offering special protection to these species (forbidding hunting, banning their habitats from development, etc.) to prevent this. Only a few of the many truly endangered species actually... Endangered Species, Hazardous waste is waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment and generally exhibits one or more of these characteristics: ignitability corrosivity reactivity (explosive) toxicity Many types of businesses generate hazardous waste. Some are small companies that may be located in a community. For example... Hazardous Wastes, Admiralty law (usually referred to as simply admiralty and also referred to as maritime law) is a distinct body of law which governs maritime questions and offenses. Under conventions of international law, the flag flown by a ship generally determines the source of law to be applied in admiralty cases... Law of the Sea, Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping Wastes and Other Matter (London Convention) note - abbreviated as Marine Dumping opened for signature - 29 December 1972 entered into force - 30 August 1975 objective - to control pollution of the sea by dumping and to encourage regional agreements supplementary to the Convention... Marine Dumping, The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purposes and was opened for signature in New York on 24 September 1996, when it was signed by 71 States, including the five nuclear weapon states at the time (which did not... Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ships can pollute the waterways and oceans in many ways. There are spills from oil tankers, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide gases from exhaust fumes. Ships create noise pollution that disturbs natural wildlife, and water from ballast tanks can spread harmful algae. The Ship Pollution protocol is an agreement to... Ship Pollution, note - abbreviated as Tropical Timber 83 opened for signature - November 18, 1983 entered into force - April 1, 1985; this agreement expired when the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994, went into force. objective - to provide an effective framework for cooperation between tropical timber producers and consumers and to encourage the development... Tropical Timber 83, note - abbreviated as Tropical Timber 94 opened for signature - January 26, 1994 entered into force - January 1, 1997 objective - to ensure that by the year 2000 exports of tropical timber originate from sustainably managed sources; to establish a fund to assist tropical timber producers in obtaining the resources necessary to... Tropical Timber 94, and A subtropical wetland in Florida, USA, with an endangered American Crocodile. In physical geography, a wetland is an environment at the interface between truly terrestrial ecosystems...and truly aquatic systems...making them different from each yet highly dependent on both (Mitsch & Gosselink, 1986). In essence, wetlands are ecotones. Wetlands... Wetlands.

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