Yamoussoukro

Yamoussoukro is the capital of Côte d'Ivoire. Côte d'Ivoire is a country in West Africa.

The city is right in the middle of the country.

Yamoussoukro has officially been the capital of Côte d'Ivoire since 21 March 1983, Universalis says. It lies in the center of the country, on the main road that runs from the south to the north.

At the 2014 census, 212,670 people lived in the city. At the 2021 census, the Yamoussoukro department, which includes the city and the land around it, had 372,559 people.

Institut National de la Statistique de Côte d'Ivoire (via City Population): city of Yamoussoukro 37,253 (census 1975), 106,786 (1988), 155,803 (1998), 212,670 (15 May 2014); Yamoussoukro department 219,712 (1998), 310,056 (2014), 372,559 (14 December 2021); Yamoussoukro autonomous district 248,034 (1998), 355,573 (2014), 422,072 (2021). The city figure for 2021 is not in the tables.

Universalis: officially the capital of Côte d'Ivoire since 21 March 1983, in the center of the country on the main south-north axis.

This photo was taken by a drone, high in the air. Look at the long rows of tall arches!

Green trees and grass are all around the buildings.

This photo shows the national polytechnic institute in Yamoussoukro, a public polytechnic college, seen from a drone on 28 July 2022. Long rows of tall, rounded arches run around its wide, flat-roofed buildings. In front are a parking lot, palm trees, a lawn and a road.

Behind the college, trees, green roofs and sports fields stretch toward low hills on the horizon. Wikidata dates the institute from 1996.

Commons: 'Inphb de Yamoussoukro (Bosson)', 28 July 2022, own work by Honore Bosson (the uploader), taken with a DJI drone camera, CC BY-SA 4.0; entered in Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Côte d'Ivoire. Wikidata: a public polytechnic in Yamoussoukro, inception 1996, 6.69 km NE of the city's point.

In the picture: flat-roofed teaching blocks wrapped in screens of tall pink-brown arches, an inner courtyard with a pool, parked cars and palm trees in front, and green-roofed buildings and playing fields behind, under a cloudy sky. Universalis counts grandes écoles (major colleges) among the city's large buildings.

Yamoussoukro has major colleges where students learn.

There is lots of green space between the buildings.

Yamoussoukro is a city of wide open spaces, Universalis says. Many people live in the central districts of Habitat and Dioulakro, while elsewhere large buildings stand far apart: a hotel, grandes écoles (major colleges) and a basilica modelled on St. Peter's in Rome.

The national polytechnic institute in the photo is one of these colleges. Wikidata calls it a public polytechnic and dates it from 1996.

Universalis: the city, vast and with wide avenues, has a low density of buildings apart from the central districts of Habitat and Dioulakro; here and there, without real unity, large architectural works dominate it, among them a hotel, grandes écoles and the basilica, a replica of St. Peter's in Rome.

Wikidata: the national polytechnic institute (Q3152449), a public polytechnic in Yamoussoukro, inception 1996; the basilica (Q815584), inception 1989, 2.58 km WSW of the city's point.