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Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Mount Richard-Molard and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Côte d'Ivoire and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. One is on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
Church in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast
A Catholic minor basilica dedicated to Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast's administrative capital. Guinness World Records lists it as the world's largest church, having overtaken Saint Peter's Basilica, the former record holder, on completion.
Photo: Didierwiki, CC0
World Heritage
Protected area in Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
A protected area and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire, covering 175.4 km² in all, 125.4 km² in Guinea and 50 km² in Côte d'Ivoire. It takes in much of the Nimba Range, a unique area with unusually rich plant and animal life, including an exceptional number of species found at just one site, such as Nimbaphrynoides, the Nimba otter shrew and several horseshoe bats.
Photo: Guy Debonnet, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo
Mountain on the border between Ivory Coast and Guinea in West Africa
A mountain on the borders of Guinea, Ivory Coast and Liberia, in West Africa. Its summit, on the Guinea–Ivory Coast border, is 1,752 m (5,748 ft) high, the highest point of both countries.
Photo: L. Lartigue, Public domain
Dam in Ivory Coast
An embankment dam damming the Bandama River around 32 kilometres (20 mi) northwest of Yamoussoukro, in Côte d'Ivoire. Its 174 megawatts (233,000 hp) of generating capacity can supply more than 118,000 homes.
Photo: Hanay, CC BY-SA 3.0
Navigable canal in Ivory Coast, constructed in 1950
Also called Canal de Vridi, a navigable canal in Ivory Coast linking the port of Abidjan with the Atlantic Ocean, built in 1950 and named after the village of Vridi.
Photo: Singoloua225, CC BY-SA 4.0
Dam in Côte d'Ivoire
A hydroelectric plant on the Bandama River in Côte d'Ivoire, formed in 1975, able to generate 210 megawatts (280,000 hp), enough for over 141,000 homes.
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
Catholic cathedral in Côte d'Ivoire
Designed by Aldo Spirito, an Italian architect, this Roman Catholic cathedral in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, serves as the Archdiocese of Abidjan's mother church.
Photo: Chescargot, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Reservoir in Ivory Coast
The largest lake in Côte d'Ivoire, on the Bandama River in the middle of the country.
Photo: Hanay, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Skyscraper in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
A supertall office skyscraper being built in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Begun in 2021 and due to be finished in 2026, it is to stand 421 metres (1,381 ft) tall with 75 floors, overtaking the Iconic Tower in Egypt's The New Capital as Africa's tallest building.
Photo: Zaizone, CC BY-SA 4.0
Church in Gagnoa, Ivory Coast
A cathedral in Gagnoa, a town in Ivory Coast, Africa, counted among the most important religious buildings in the country. Originally a parish church, it was made a cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church on February 3, 1957.
Photo: Zenman, CC BY-SA 3.0
Also called Côte d'Ivoire, and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, a country on West Africa's south coast. Yamoussoukro, the capital, is in the middle of the country; Abidjan, a port, is its biggest city and business centre. Its land neighbours are Liberia (west), Guinea (northwest), Mali (north), Burkina Faso (northeast) and Ghana (east); to the south lies the Gulf of Guinea, part of the Atlantic Ocean.
Officially The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Mount Richard-Molard and Kossou Dam and others. Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Côte d'Ivoire that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
1 of the 10 in this guide: Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve. That is not the full count for Côte d'Ivoire, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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