The capital of Ivory Coast is Yamoussoukro. This was the hometown of the long time President, Felix Houphouet-Boigny. In 1983 he convinced Parliament to approve the building of the new Capital. However Abidjan has remained the economic capital and the largest city of the country and many administrative offices remain. With the President having passed away many years ago one would have expected the capital to move back to Abidjan and all forms of the National government to revert. There has not been any move to do this.