Quick Read. Abidjan is Côte d’Ivoire’s dominant economic metropolis, principal port and major West African service hub, while Yamoussoukro carries formal political-capital status.

One-sentence answer: Abidjan works by concentrating port logistics, finance, industry and labour around a lagoon metropolis whose commercial network effects remain nationally dominant.

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