Gôh-Djiboua District () is one of fourteen

administrative districts Administrative divisions (also administrative units, administrative regions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divi ...

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. The district is located in the southwest corner of the country. The capital of the district is

Gagnoa Gagnoa is a city in south-central Ivory Coast. It is the seat of both Gôh-Djiboua District and Gôh Region. It is also the seat of and a sub-prefecture of Gagnoa Department. Gagnoa is also a commune. In the 2014 census, the city had a populat ...

Creation

Gôh-Djiboua District was created in a 2011 administrative reorganisation of the

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.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 Sud-Bandama (except the department of

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) and Fromager.

Administrative divisions

Gôh-Djiboua District is currently subdivided into two

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and the following

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: * Gôh Region (formerly Fromager Region) (region seat also in

) ** Gagnoa Department ** Oumé Department * Lôh-Djiboua Region (formerly Sud-Bandama Region) (region seat in Divo) ** Divo Department **

Lakota Department The Lakota Department is a Departments of Ivory Coast, department of the Lôh-Djiboua Region in Gôh-Djiboua District, Ivory Coast. In 2021, its population was 334,235 and its seat is the settlement of Lakota, Ivory Coast, Lakota. The sub-prefectur ...

** Guitry Department

Population

According to the 2021 census, Gôh-Djiboua District has a population of 2,088,440.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goh-Djiboua District Districts of Ivory Coast States and territories established in 2011