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Côte d'Ivoire is divided into 31 regions and two autonomous districts, and that is the map most people can't draw: a country the size of Germany with Abidjan and Yamoussoukro as the only names that travel. The regions are named for rivers, mountains and peoples as often as for towns, so knowing where a town is does not always tell you which region it governs. This page is all 33, the 12 districts to learn them in, and the changes that make older maps wrong.
The 31 regions are the second tier of the country's administration, set up in 2011 under the 14 districts above them. Two of those districts, Abidjan and Yamoussoukro, are autonomous: a single city each, with no regions inside them, and they are the two smallest areas on the map. This game asks for the 31 regions and both cities, so the answer is always one of 33.
Ivory Coast and Côte d'Ivoire are the same country. The government has asked since 1986 that the French name be used in every language, and it is the official one, so the region names here are written the way the country writes them, accents included.
The number that matters is 31. Before 2011 the country had 19 regions, so a map older than that, or one printed from an older dataset, draws bigger regions with different names. The 2011 reform made the districts and regions the two tiers an official map uses today.
The traps are the neighbours that share a name with their district, and the few regions that are bigger than a district.
Savanes, Zanzan and Montagnes are districts, not regions. The district is the group of regions, and the game asks for the regions inside it. Bounkani and Gontougo fill Zanzan, and Tonkpi, Guémon and Cavally make up Montagnes.
Bélier is in two pieces. The Yamoussoukro district sits in the middle of it, which leaves the region as a northern and a southern half either side of the capital.
The two cities are in a group, but are not regions. Abidjan is drawn with the Lagunes group and Yamoussoukro with Lacs, which is where each sat before 2011.
The groups are the 14 districts of the 2011 reform, with the two autonomous cities folded into the districts around them. A district is the tier a national map is usually coloured by, so what you learn here carries to any map of the country.
Bounkani: the whole north east corner, bordering Ghana and Burkina Faso. It is the largest region on the map by a wide margin, and a quiet one, with Comoé National Park, one of the largest protected areas in West Africa, taking up a big part of it. Its capital is Bouna.
Abidjan: a strip of land on the lagoon coast, the economic capital and the largest city of the country. It is an autonomous district rather than a region, and it is among the smallest areas on the map, so if the picture is a port, towers and a lagoon crossed by bridges, this is the answer.
Yamoussoukro: the political capital since 1983, in the middle of the country, with the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace. It is the other autonomous district and it cuts Bélier in two.
31 regions, plus the two autonomous districts of Abidjan and Yamoussoukro, which this game also asks for, so 33 in all. They are grouped into 14 districts. Before 2011 the country had 19 regions, and older maps still show them.
The district is the top tier and the region sits inside it. Twelve of the 14 districts hold two to four regions each, and the other two, Abidjan and Yamoussoukro, are autonomous districts that are a city and nothing more.
Yamoussoukro has been the political capital since 1983, and Abidjan, on the lagoon coast, is the economic capital and the largest city. Most embassies and businesses are still in Abidjan.
Both name the same country. Côte d'Ivoire is the official French name, and the government has asked since 1986 that it be used in every language. Maps in English often still say Ivory Coast.
Abidjan and Yamoussoukro are districts on their own, one city each. A group of one city is not much to learn from, so this game puts Abidjan in the Lagunes group and Yamoussoukro in Lacs, the districts around them.
For other West African maps, try Ghana Regions, whose eastern border Côte d'Ivoire shares, and Senegal Regions. For another set of second tiers, Tunisia Governorates.
