Haut-Sassandra Region is one of the 31

regions of Ivory Coast The regions of Ivory Coast () are the second-level subdivisions of Ivory Coast. There are 31 regions, and each region is subdivided into two or more departments of Ivory Coast, departments, the third-level division in Ivory Coast. Two to four re ...

and is one of two regions in

Sassandra-Marahoué District Sassandra-Marahoué District (, ) is one of fourteen administrative districts of Ivory Coast. The district is located in the central part of the country. The capital of the district is Daloa. Creation Sassandra-Marahoué District was created in a ...

. The region's seat is

Daloa Daloa is a city in western Ivory Coast. It is the seat of both the Sassandra-Marahoué District and the Haut-Sassandra Region. It is also the seat of and a sub-prefecture of Daloa Department. Daloa is also a commune. In the 2014 census, the ci ...

. The region's area is 15,190 km², and its population in the 2021 census was 1,739,697, making it the most populous region of Ivory Coast.

Departments and geography

Haut-Sassandra is currently divided into four

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, ...

, Issia, Vavoua, and Zoukougbeu. The region is traversed by a northwesterly line of equal latitude and longitude.

History

Haut-Sassandra Region was created in 1997 as a first-level administrative region of the country. In 2000, Gagnoa Department was split off from Haut-Sassandra and combined with Oumé Department from Marahoué Region to form Fromager Region. As part of the 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 ...

, Haut-Sassandra was converted into a second-level administrative region and became part of the new first-level

.Décret n° 2011-263 du 28 septembre 2011 portant organisation du territoire national en Districts et en Régions. No territorial changes were made to Haut-Sassandra as a result of the reorganisation.

Notes

{{Authority control Regions of Sassandra-Marahoué District 1997 establishments in Ivory Coast States and territories established in 1997