Ananda | |
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Town and sub-prefecture | |
  Ananda Location in Ivory Coast | |
| Coordinates: 6°57′N4°18′W / 6.950°N 4.300°W Coordinates: 6°57′N4°18′W / 6.950°N 4.300°W | |
| Country |  |
| District | Lacs |
| Region | Iffou |
| Department | Daoukro |
| Population (2014) [1] | |
| • Total | 12,020 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
Ananda is a town in east-central Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of Daoukro Department in Iffou Region, Lacs District.
Ivory Coast or Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country located on the south coast of West Africa. Ivory Coast's political capital is Yamoussoukro in the centre of the country, while its economic capital and largest city is the port city of Abidjan. It borders Guinea and Liberia to the west, Burkina Faso and Mali to the north, Ghana to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south.
Sub-prefectures of Ivory Coast are the fourth-level administrative subdivisions of the country. There are currently 510 sub-prefectures. They were created in 2011, when the administrative subdivisions of Ivory Coast were reorganised.
Daoukro Department is a department of Iffou Region in Lacs District, Ivory Coast. In 2014, its population was 159,085 and its seat is the settlement of Daoukro. The sub-prefectures of the department are Akpassanou, Ananda, Daoukro, Ettrokro, N'Gattakro, Ouellé, and Samanza.
Ananda was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished. [2]
The communes of Ivory Coast are a fifth-level administrative unit of administration in Ivory Coast. The sub-prefectures of Ivory Coast contain villages, and in select instances more than one village is combined into a commune. There are currently 197 communes in the 510 sub-prefectures.
In 2014, the population of the sub-prefecture of Ananda was 12,020 [3] .
