Cote d'Ivoire is about 2.6 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Cote d'Ivoire is approximately 322,463 sq km, making Cote d'Ivoire 164% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (9.3 million more people live in Cote d'Ivoire).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Cote d'Ivoire uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.