Editing Yamoussoukro (section)

===Since independence===
After 1964, the President [[Félix Houphouët-Boigny]] made ambitious plans and started to build. One day in 1965, later called the Great Lesson of Yamoussoukro, he visited the plantations with the leaders of the county, inviting them to transpose to their own villages the efforts and agricultural achievements of the region. On 21 July 1977, Houphouët offered his plantations to the State.{{cn|date=March 2024}}

In March 1983, President Houphouët-Boigny made Yamoussoukro the political and administrative capital of [[Ivory Coast]], as the city was his birthplace.<ref>Roman Adrian Cybriwsky, ''Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture'', ABC-CLIO, USA, 2013, p. 339</ref> This marked the fourth movement of the country's capital city in a century. Ivory Coast's previous capital cities were [[Grand-Bassam]] (1893), [[Bingerville]] (1900), and Abidjan (1933). Most economic activity still takes place in Abidjan, and it is officially designated as the "economic capital" of the country.

Yamoussoukro is the seat of [[Yamoussoukro Department]] and the neighbouring [[Bélier Region]], but Yamoussoukro itself is not part of the region.