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Continent: Western and Northern Africa

Capital: Yamoussoukro

Area: 318,003 km²

Population: 24,184,810

Neighbouring Countries: ← Liberia , ↖ Guinea , ↑ Mali , ↗ Burkina Faso , → Ghana

Religions: Muslim 42.9%, Catholic 17.2%, Evangelical 11.8%, Methodist 1.7%, other Christian 3.2%, animist 3.6%, other religion 0.5%, none 19.1%

Languages: French (official), 60 native dialects of which Dioula is the most widely spoken

Ethnic Groups: Akan 28.8%, Voltaique or Gur 16.1%, Northern Mande 14.5%, Kru 8.5%, Southern Mande 6.9%, unspecified 0.9%, non-Ivoirian 42.3%

Motto: Union, Discipline, Travail (French) (Unity, Discipline, Labor)

Area: 322,463 km²

Catholic Population: 8,173,000 Catholics (28.8% of 28,402,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 663 parishes, 914 mission stations (2 with resident priest, 912 without resident priest), 50 other centres

Clergy: 20 bishops (14 diocesan, 6 titular), 2,242 priests (1,786 diocesan, 456 religious), 6 permanent deacons (4 diocesan, 2 religious)

Non-Clergy: 1,277 religious (276 brothers, 1,001 sisters), 13 members of secular institutes (sisters), 820 major seminarians, 54 missionaries, 19,575 catechists