Kindia region

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Kindia
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Basic data
Country Guinea
Capital Kindia
surface 28,873 km²
Residents 1,561,336 (2014)
density 54 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 GN-D

Coordinates: 10 ° 4 ′  N , 12 ° 51 ′  W

Kindia is a region of Guinea and has an area of ​​28,873 km². It is located in the west of the country, on the Atlantic coast and the border with Sierra Leone . Their capital is the eponymous Kindia . The region had 1,561,336 inhabitants at the last census in 2014 and is still sparsely populated with 54.1 inhabitants per square kilometer, despite strong population growth.

Kindia is mostly located in the geographic region of Lower Guinea .

Administrative division

The Kindia region comprises five prefectures. These are:

prefecture Area in km² Ew. (2014)
male 		Ew. (2014)
female 		Ew. (2014)
total 		main place
Coyah 1275 127.088 136,735 263,823 Coyah
Dubréka 4350 162,656 167,892 330,548 Dubréka
Forécariah 4384 116,500 126,442 242,942 Forécariah
Kindia 9648 212.994 226.620 439.614 Kindia
Télimélé 9216 129,954 154,455 284,409 Télimélé
Kindia region 28,873 749.192 812.144 1,561,336 Kindia

Significant places

The most populous town in the region is Manéah with almost 170,000 inhabitants. Other important cities are Dubréka, Kindia, Coyah, Forécariah and Télimélé.

population

The number of residents has grown rapidly in the last few decades. The censuses showed (1983) 555,937, (1996) 928,312 and (2014) 1,561,336 residents. Between 1983 and 1996 there was an annual population growth of 3.7%. In contrast, the number of residents only grew by 2.9% annually between 1996 and 2014.

Of the population (2014) 749,192 persons were male and 812,144 (52.0% of the population) persons were female. Only 546,066 people (35.0% of the population) lived in urban areas in 2014.

The region is linguistically quite uniform. The languages Sussu (54.9% of the population) and Poular (also Peul; 35.2% of the population), which are also important at the state level, are the dominant languages. Other important languages ​​in the Kindia region are Malinke (5.3% of the population) and Kissi (1.0% of the population).

Like most regions of Guinea, the region is almost completely Islamized (89.1% nationwide in 2014). Islam (97.2% of the population) and Christianity (2.3% 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