Neither. The correct term is Cote d'Ivoire (which is just Ivory Coast in French) but the country has refused to have their name translated into any other language than their used language, French.
It was called Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast in English) by the French colonials. Beginning in the 19th century, the area was one of the chief export areas for the ivory trade to Europe and became known...
The Republic of the Ivory Coast, on the south coast of the western bulge of Africa, is bordered to the north by Mali and Burkina Faso, to the east by Ghana, to the south the Gulf of Guinea of the...
The Ivory Coast - officially known as Republic of Côte d'Ivoire - is in Northwest Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea of the Atlantic Ocean. Its borders are Liberia and Guinea to the west; Mali and...
No. Ivory sales in Cote d'Ivoire are strictly prohibited and tightly watched. Elephant populations of western Africa were decimated by the trade in ivory. Beginning in the 19th century, the area was...