Côte d’Ivoire

The world's largest church by floor area, built in the 1980s on the orders of President Houphouët-Boigny, modeled after St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.

A former French colonial capital on the Côte d'Ivoire coast, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site preserving late-19th-century colonial urban fabric and colonial-era administrative and commercial architecture.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site spanning the border of Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea, centred on Mount Nimba which rises sharply above the surrounding plains and supports an exceptional diversity of plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth.

The highest peak in Côte d'Ivoire at approximately 1,189 metres, located in the Mont Tonkoui classified forest near the town of Man in the western highlands, offering panoramic views over the forested hill country of the region.

A coastal town at the mouth of the Sassandra River in southern Côte d'Ivoire, with a working harbour, an active lighthouse and a beach of dark sand facing the Atlantic, offering an unpolished picture of Ivorian coastal life beyond the resort corridor.

The largest remaining block of primary tropical rainforest in West Africa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site protecting one of the continent's most biodiverse ecosystems and home to western lowland gorillas, forest elephants and chimpanzees.