Ivory Coast, a part of the northern coast of the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa, embraces the districts between Cape Palmas and the river Assini. Its western portion belongs to Liberia; its eastern, now counted as part of the Gold Coast, is shared between Britain and France. The name bears no political meaning.
Ivory Coast,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 258
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