{"id":10864,"date":"2021-05-25T16:41:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T20:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=10864"},"modified":"2021-05-25T17:11:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T21:11:28","slug":"on-ivory-coast-cote-divoire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=10864","title":{"rendered":"On Ivory Coast = Cote D'ivoire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Geography Now! Ivory Coast (C\u00f4te D&#039;ivoire)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/23ubg7QdebI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Major export of ivories, illegal now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael Jackson recognized as their King once (1992).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ghana's French speaking rival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#1 <strong>Cocoa <\/strong>production in the world. But they don't know much about chocolate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>12 Districts + 2 Autonomous Cities (dual capital):<\/strong><br>Abidjan = Economic Capital<br>Yamussoukro = Political Capital<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The districts don't really have official mayor level government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The regions can also be categorized into 4 language regions: Gur, Kwa, Kru, Mande (clockwise from NE)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coasts other than Abidjan are beautiful but unreachable by normal means, no roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Basilique Notre-Dame de la Paix = exterior larger than St. Peter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 major rivers provide enough water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Love to eat giant snails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People = Ivorians<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drive on right side of the road<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1\/3 Christians. 39% Muslims.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muslim traders moved in in first millennia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1400s: Portuguese &amp; French.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Felix Houphouet Boigny = Father of independence (1960s) from the French, best leader of the country, peaceful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soccer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Best friends: France, Mali &amp; Burkina Faso (They need the coasts), Ghana (frenemy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major export of ivories, illegal now. Michael Jackson recognized as their King once (1992). Ghana's French speaking rival. #1 Cocoa production in the world. But they don't know much about chocolate. 12 Districts + 2 Autonomous Cities (dual capital):Abidjan = &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=10864\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10864"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10885,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864\/revisions\/10885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}