Comoé District (; , named for the Komoé River) is one of fourteen administrative districts of

Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire 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 List of ci ...

. The district is located in the southeast corner of the country, bordering

Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

to the east, Zanzan District to the north, Lacs District and Lagunes District to the west, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south. The capital of the district is

Abengourou Abengourou is a city in eastern Ivory Coast. It is the seat of both Comoé District and Indénié-Djuablin Region. It is also a commune and the seat of and a sub-prefecture of Abengourou Department. Abengourou is primarily populated by the A ...

Creation

Comoé District was created in a 2011 administrative reorganisation of the

subdivisions of Ivory Coast Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) is a relatively Decentralization, decentralised state. The country divided into 14 Districts of Ivory Coast, districts, of which two are cities organised as autonomous districts. The other 12 districts are subdivided in ...

.Décret n° 2011-263 du 28 septembre 2011 portant organisation du territoire national en Districts et en Régions. The territory of the district was composed by merging the former regions of Moyen-Comoé and Sud-Comoé.

Administrative divisions

Comoé District is currently subdivided into two

regions In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and ...

and the following

departments 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, ...

: * Indénié-Djuablin Region (formerly Moyen-Comoé Region) (region seat also in

) ** Abengourou Department ** Agnibilékrou Department ** Bettié Department * Sud-Comoé Region (region seat in Aboisso) ** Aboisso Department ** Adiaké Department ** Grand-Bassam Department ** Tiapoum Department

Population

According to the 2021 census, Comoé District has a population of 1,501,366.

References

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