Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) is a relatively decentralised state. The country divided into 14
districts, of which two are cities organised as autonomous districts. The 12 non-autonomous districts are subdivided into 31 second-level
regions. The regions are divided into 105 third-level
departments. The departments and the autonomous districts are divided into 510 fourth-level
sub-prefectures. Sub-prefectures contain villages and, in some instances, several villages are combined into fifth-level
communes. There are 197 communes.