Printable map of Côte d'Ivoire

A sheet of Côte d'Ivoire for the classroom often starts with a puzzle: the capital is not the largest city. That makes this map useful for a geography lesson as well as for labelling. You can print the blank outline or the version with its 19 administrative areas, on A4 or Letter, in colour or black and white.

Capital against largest city

Give each pupil the regions version and two tasks. First, mark Yamoussoukro, the capital. Second, mark Abidjan, which tops the list of largest cities, then Bouaké, Daloa and San-Pedro. Ask where the capital falls in that list and what the class makes of it. The list gives only the order of size, so an atlas supplies the positions.

Labelling the 19

Older pupils can label a set number of areas from the list on this page, such as Haut-Sassandra, Marahoué, Bafing and Vallée du Bandama, then swap sheets to mark each other. A look-and-cover round works for revision: label what you can from memory, then check the rest.

Younger children can use the blank outline: write Côte d'Ivoire across the top, dot the five cities and colour the land in their favourite colour.

Neighbours and printing

Ghana, Liberia, Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso border it, and pupils can write them in around the outline from an atlas. For printing, choose black and white for a class set, since coloured areas come out as different greys. Colour is better for a single display copy. Print at 100% unless a margin is cut, in which case "fit to page" corrects it.

To use the outline as a picture in your own worksheet, see the blank map of Côte d'Ivoire.