Kankan region

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Basic data
Country Guinea
Capital Kankan
surface 72,145 km²
Residents 1,972,537 (2014)
density 27 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 GN-K

Coordinates: 10 ° 23 ′  N , 9 ° 18 ′  W

Kankan is a region of Guinea and has an area of ​​72,145 km². It is located in the east of the country, bordering Mali and the Ivory Coast . Their capital is the eponymous Kankan . The region had 1,972,537 inhabitants at the last census in 2014 and is still sparsely populated with 27.3 inhabitants per square kilometer, despite strong population growth.

Kankan largely corresponds to the geographic region of Upper Guinea .

Administrative division

The Kankan region comprises five prefectures. These are:

prefecture Area in km² Ew. (2014)
male 		Ew. (2014)
female 		Ew. (2014)
total 		main place
Kankan 19,750 233,617 239,742 473.359 Kankan
Kérouané 7020 102.125 105,422 207,547 Kérouané
Kouroussa 14,050 130,558 138,072 268,630 Kouroussa
Mandiana 12,825 167.873 168.126 335.999 Mandiana
Siguiri 18,500 346.276 340.726 687.002 Siguiri
Kankan region 72,145 980.449 992.088 1,972,537 Kankan

Significant places

The most populous place in the region is Kankan with almost 200,000 inhabitants. Other important cities are Siguiri, Kouroussa, Kérouané and Mandiana.

population

The number of residents has grown rapidly in the last few decades. The population censuses showed (1983) 640,432, (1996) 1,011,644 and (2014) 1,972,537 residents. Between 1983 and 2014 there was an annual population growth of 3.3%. In contrast, the number of residents grew by as much as 3.8% annually between 1996 and 2014.

Of the population (2014) 980,449 persons were male and 992,088 persons (50.3% of the population) were female. Only 389,184 people (19.8% of the population) lived in urban areas in 2014.

The region is linguistically quite uniform. The language Malinke (87.1% of the population), which is also important at the state level, is the most important language. Other important languages ​​in the Kankan region are Poular (also Peul; 3.9% of the population), Kouranko (also 3.9% of the population) and Koniaka (2.6% of the population).

Like most regions of Guinea, the region is almost completely Islamized (89.1% nationwide in 2014). Islam (98.7% of the population) and Christianity (1.1% of the population) have grown rapidly over the past fifty years. Only small parts of the residents are followers of their traditional religions. But many Muslims and Christians practice a mixed religion of traditional and new faith. In addition, as everywhere in West Africa, Sufism has a significant following.

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  1. ↑ National Statistics Institute of Guinea, 2014 Census, p. 34
  2. ↑ City population, cities Guinea