Ouest department
Basic data | |
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Main town : | Port-au-Prince |
Area : | 4893 km² |
Residents : | 4,029,705 (2015) |
Population density : | 807 inhabitants per km² |
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Ouest (German "West") is a department in the south of Haiti . It borders the Dominican Republic in the east and covers an area of 4893 km² . The island of Gonâve also belongs to this department .
In 2015 the population was estimated at around 4,030,000. A good half of the inhabitants of the department live in the state capital Port-au-Prince and its suburbs.
Population development
year | population |
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Volksz. 1971 | 1,205,921 |
Volksz. 1982 | 1,551,792 |
Volksz. 2003 | 3,096,967 |
Guess 2015 | 4,029,705 |
The plains of the arrondissements
The department is divided into five districts (arrondissements) :
- Arrondissement d'Arcahaie (with two municipalities):
- Arrondissement de Croix-des-Bouquets (with five municipalities):
- Arrondissement de La Gonâve (with two municipalities):
- Arrondissement de Léogâne (with three municipalities):
- Arrondissement de Port-au-Prince (with eight municipalities):
Cities and villages
- Anse-à-galets
- Arcahaie
- Cabaret
- Carrefour
- Cornillon
- Croix-des-Bouquets
- Delmas
- Duvalierville
- Fond Parisien
- Fund verrettes
- Ganthier
- Grand Goâve
- Gressier
- Kenscoff
- Léogâne
- Magasin
- Petionville
- Petit-Goâve
- Pointe-a-Raquette
- Port-au-Prince
- Thomazeau
- Trouin
Footnotes
- ↑ Direction des Statistiques Démographiques et Sociales (DSDS): Population totale par sexe et population de 18 ans et plus, ménages et densités, estimées en 2015 . Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique, Port-au-Prince 2015, p. 77, accessed on November 22, 2018.
- ^ Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique: Population totale par sexe et population de 18 ans et plus, ménages et densités, estimées en 2015 . Port-au-Prince 2015, table Population totale par sexe et population de 18 ans et plus, estimées en 2015, au niveau des différentes unités géographiques (Arrondissements, Communes, Sections Communales) , p. 21, accessed on November 22, 2018.