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Ivory Coast
Index
A broad belt of dense forest covers nearly one-third of
the
country, extending north of the lagoon region in the east
and
reaching down to the coastline in the west between the
Sassandra
River and the mouth of the Cavally River. Its northern
boundary
stretches from the city of Man in the west to Bondoukou in
the
east, dipping down in the center of the country to the
confluence
of the Bandama Blanc and Bandama Rouge rivers. This
boundary marks
the transition from forest to grassy woodlands where
plantation
agriculture and burning have encroached on the forest.
From the
border with Ghana west to the Sassandra River, the gently
rolling
relief of the forest region is broken by small hills. West
of the
Sassandra, the Dan Mountains and the Toura Mountains reach
1,300
meters elevation. Mt. Nimba, near the border with Liberia
and
Guinea, reaches 1,752 meters.
Data as of November 1988
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