Lebanese people in the Ivory Coast are a community of people whose ancestors are Lebanese and either emigrated to the Ivory Coast directly or are descended from those who did. It is the largest Lebanese diaspora in Africa.[1]
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| Total population | |
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| 80,000 - 100,000[2][3] Upper Estimate: 300,000[4][5] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Abidjan, Yamoussoukro, Bouaké, San-Pédro. | |
| Languages | |
| French, Arabic, Akan languages and other Languages of Ivory Coast. | |
| Religion | |
| Islam (primarily Shia), Christianity[6] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Lebanese diaspora |
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The number of Lebanese people in the Ivory Coast are variously estimated in the tens or hundreds of thousands.[6][7] They are the largest Lebanese diaspora community in West Africa.[8] 80% of the Lebanese community in Ivory Coast lives in Abidjan, and about 20% of them live in Bouaké.[9]
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- ^ "Des investisseurs libanais à Abidjan pour investir en Afrique". VOA.
- ^ "Côte d'Ivoire : insubmersibles Libanais – Jeune Afrique". JeuneAfrique.com.
- ^ "Côte d'Ivoire - World Directory of Minorities & Indigenous Peoples". Minority Rights Group. January 30, 2018.
- ^ "The Demographic Dimensions of the Conflict in Ivory Coast".
- ^ a b Handloff 1988
- ^ "Abidjan district tense after Lebanese kills youth", All West Africa News/Agence France-Presse, 2009-07-14, retrieved 2010-01-11
- ^ Peleikis 2000, p. 301
- ^ "Lebanese abandoned in Ivory Coast". Al Bawaba.