The Guinea–Ivory Coast border is in length and runs from the tripoint with

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in the north to the tripoint with

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in the south.

Description

The border starts in the north at the Malian tripoint, briefly going overland to the south-west before reaching the Sankarani River. The border follows this river, then the Gbanhala, southwards, before joining the Kourou Kelle river. The border then proceeds overland to the south via a series of irregular lines, before reaching the Bagbe river, which it then follows as it flows to the west, followed by the Koure as it flows to the south. A series of irregular overland lines then connect southwards to the Liberian tripoint in the

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History

France had begun signing treaties with chiefs along the modern Ivorian coast in the 1840s, thereby establishing a protectorate which later became the colony of Ivory Coast in 1893. France has also annexed the coast of what is now Guinea in the late 19th century as the Rivières du Sud colony. The area was renamed French Guinea 1894, and was later included within the

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colony along with Ivory Coast. A border between the two was delimited by decree on 17 October 1899, with a more detailed description provided in a French ''arrete'' of 21 June 1911. As the movement for decolonisation grew in the post-

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era, France gradually granted more political rights and representation for their sub-Saharan African colonies, culminating in the granting of broad internal autonomy to French West Africa in 1958 within the framework of the

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. Guinea gained full independence in 1958, followed by Ivory Coast in 1960.

Settlements near the border

Guinea

* Noumoudjiguila * Fassiadougou * N'Zoo

Ivory Coast

* Biramadougou * Seydougou * Gbéléban * Sirana * Bougousso * Bako * Niokosso * Mahandougou * Ngorodougou *

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* Sipilou * Zoupleu

References

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