Cote d'Ivoire is a west African country, and it's french name remains unchanged in English. Litterly meaning "Ivory Coast" you can guess what the country used to be famous for. Now it has mainly coffee and cocoa as agricultural export products. It is claimed that any chocolatier worth his salt should have Ivorian cocoa in his mix. If you walk in the container yard in Abidjan,the capital, you will watermouth as you can smell cocoa everywhere. Cote d'Ivoire was one of the first African countries to achieve independance from their colonisers - the French. Their inspirational leader Felix Houphouet-Boigny was a great thinker and lead his country to certain prosperity. To such an extend that it was called the Ivorian miracle. It is currently stil one of the upcoming African countries. Currently the country holds 19 million inhabitants, with Didier Drogba probably the best known of all of them - being a top scoring soccer player
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