Attiégouakro Department is a

department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...

. It is one of two departments in the

Yamoussoukro Autonomous District Yamoussoukro (; , locally ) is the ''de jure'' capital of Ivory Coast and an autonomous district. As of the 2014 census, Yamoussoukro is the fifth most populous city in Ivory Coast with a population of 212,670. Located north-west of Abidjan, ...

Population and sub-prefectures

In the 2021 census, Attiégouakro Department had a population of 49,513. The department is divided into two sub-prefectures,

Attiégouakro Attiégouakro is a town in central Ivory Coast. Since 2009 it has been the seat of and a sub-prefectures of Attiégouakro Department, Yamoussoukro Autonomous District. Attiégouakro was a commune A commune is an alternative term for an intenti ...

and Lolobo.

History

Attiégouakro Department was created as in 2009 as a second-level subdivision when Lac Region's

Yamoussoukro Department Yamoussoukro Department is a department of Ivory Coast. The department houses the political capital of Ivory Coast, Yamoussoukro, and is one of two departments in the Yamoussoukro Autonomous District. Population and sub-prefectures In the 2014 c ...

was divided in two."Regions of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)"
statoids.com, accessed 16 February 2016. In 2011,

districts A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

were introduced as new first-level subdivisions of Ivory Coast. At the same time, regions were reorganised and became second-level subdivisions and all departments were converted into third-level subdivisions. At this time, Attiégouakro Department became part of

, one of two districts in the country with no regions.

Notes

Departments of Yamoussoukro 2009 establishments in Ivory Coast States and territories established in 2009 {{Yamoussoukro-geo-stub