- Total Area : 322,463 sq km
- Land Area : 318,003 sq km
- Water Area : 4,460 sq km
- Climate description : tropical along coast, semiarid in far north; three seasons - warm and dry (November to March), hot and dry (March to May), hot and wet (June to October)
- Terrain description : mostly flat to undulating plains; mountains in northwest
- Arable Land Use : 9.1 percent used
- Permanent Crop Land Use : permanent crops 14.2%; permanent pasture 41.5%
- Irrigated Land : 730 sq km
- Total Renewable Water Resources : 81.14 cu km
- Total Freshwater Withdrawal : 1.55 cu km/yr (41%/21%/38%)
- Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal : 83.07 cu m/yr
- Natural Hazards description : coast has heavy surf and no natural harbors; during the rainy season torrential flooding is possible
- Environmental Current Issues : deforestation (most of the country's forests - once the largest in West Africa - have been heavily logged); water pollution from sewage and industrial and agricultural effluents
- Total Labor Force : 8.31 million
- % of Labor Force in Agriculture : 68%
- Agricultural Products description : coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, cassava (manioc, tapioca), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber