Guinea–Ivory Coast border

[1] The border starts in the north at the Malian tripoint, briefly going overland to the south-west before reaching the Sankarani River.

A series of irregular overland lines then connect southwards to the Liberian tripoint in the Nimba Range.

[2] France has also annexed the coast of what is now Guinea in the late 19th century as the Rivières du Sud colony.

A border between the two was delimited by decree on 17 October 1899, with a more detailed description provided in a French arrete of 21 June 1911.

[2] As the movement for decolonisation grew in the post-Second World War era, France gradually granted more political rights and representation for their sub-Saharan African colonies, culminating in the granting of broad internal autonomy to French West Africa in 1958 within the framework of the French Community.