Nofou | |
|---|---|
Town and sub-prefecture | |
  Nofou Location in Ivory Coast | |
| Coordinates: 6°50′N4°42′W / 6.833°N 4.700°W Coordinates: 6°50′N4°42′W / 6.833°N 4.700°W | |
| Country |  |
| District | Lacs |
| Region | N'Zi |
| Department | Dimbokro |
| Population (2014) [1] | |
| • Total | 6,633 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
Nofou is a town in south-central Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of Dimbokro Department in N'Zi 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.
Dimbokro Department is a department of N'Zi Region in Lacs District, Ivory Coast. In 2014, its population was 91,056 and its seat is the settlement of Dimbokro. The sub-prefectures of the department are Abigui, Diangokro, Dimbokro, and Nofou.
Nofou 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 Nofou was 6,633 [3] .
