Zagné is a town in western
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 ...
. It is a
sub-prefecture
A subprefecture is an administrative division of a country that is below prefecture or province.
Albania
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of
Taï Department in
Cavally Region
Cavally Region is one of the 31 regions of Ivory Coast. From its establishment in 2011, to 2014 it was in Montagnes District. The seat of the region is Guiglo and the region's population in the 2021 census was 708,241.
Cavally is currently divid ...
,
Montagnes District
Montagnes District ( , "Mountains") is one of fourteen administrative districts of Ivory Coast. The district is located in the western part of the country, bordering Liberia and Guinea to the west, Woroba District to the north, Sassandra-Marahou ...
.
Prior to 2013, when
Taï Department was created, Zagné was a sub-prefecture of
Guiglo Department. A small portion of the sub-prefecture of Zagné lies within
Taï National Park
Taï National Park () is a national park in Ivory Coast that contains one of the last areas of primary rainforest in West Africa. It was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1982 due to the diversity of its flora and fauna. Five mammal species ...
.
Zagné was a
commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished.
"Le gouvernement ivoirien supprime 1126 communes, et maintient 197 pour renforcer sa politique de décentralisation en cours"
''news.abidjan.net'', 7 March 2012.
Notable people
*Adé Liz
Adé Liz is an Ivorian singer, based in France. Born in western Ivory Coast to a traditional singer mother, she relocated to Paris in 1982, where she won the César for Best Ivorian song in 1987 with Kéhi. In 1990, the Jeunes Journalistes B ...
, singer
Villages
In 2014, the population of the sub-prefecture of Zagné was 71,020. The 8 villages of this sub-prefecture and their population are:[
# Djidoubaye (5 092)
# Gahably (1 614)
# Goulégui-Béoué (2 939)
# Kéibly (5 905)
# Tienkoula (2 229)
# Vodélobly (2 314)
# Zagné (48 863)
# Zaϊpobly (2 064)
]
References
Sub-prefectures of Cavally Region
Former communes of Ivory Coast
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