Lebanese people in Ivory Coast

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.^{[citation needed]}

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The number of Lebanese people in the Ivory Coast are variously estimated in the tens or hundreds of thousands.^[5][6] They are the largest Lebanese diaspora community in West Africa.^[7] An estimated 2.5% of all people living in the Ivory Coast are from Lebanon. 80% of the Lebanese community in Ivory Coast lives in Abidjan, primarily in its northernmost neighborhoods, where they represent over 10% of the total population. About 20% of them live in Bouaké.^[8]