Nzérékoré region

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Nzérékoré
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Basic data
Country Guinea
Capital Nzérékoré
surface 37,658 km²
Residents 1,578,068 (2014)
density 42 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 GN-N

Coordinates: 7 ° 44 ′  N , 8 ° 49 ′  W

Nzérékoré is a region of Guinea and has an area of ​​37,658 km². It is located in the south of the country, bordering Sierra Leone , Liberia and the Ivory Coast . Their capital is the eponymous Nzérékoré . The region had 1,578,068 inhabitants at the last census in 2014 and is still sparsely populated at 41.9 inhabitants per square kilometer, despite strong population growth.

Nzérékoré largely corresponds to the geographic region of Forest Guinea .

More recently, the Nzérékoré region and the prefectures bordering it in the north have been affected by refugee flows from neighboring Sierra Leone , Liberia and Ivory Coast because of the civil wars there.

Administrative division

The Nzérékore region comprises six prefectures. These are:

prefecture Area in km² Ew. (2014)
male 		Ew. (2014)
female 		Ew. (2014)
total 		main place
Beyla 13612 159,879 166.241 326.120 Beyla
Guéckédou 4750 138,407 152.204 290.611 Guéckédou
Lola 4688 81,654 89.907 171,561 Lola
Macenta 7056 133,045 145.411 278.456 Macenta
Nzérékore 3632 194.055 202,894 396.949 Nzérékoré
Yomou 3920 55,261 59.110 114,371 Yomou
Nzérékoré region 37658 762.301 815,767 1,578,068 Nzérékoré

Significant places

The most populous town in the region is the capital Nzérékoré with almost 200,000 inhabitants. Other major cities are the other main towns of the prefectures. These are Guéckédou , Macenta , Lola , Beyla and Yomou .

population

The number of residents has grown rapidly in the last few decades. The censuses showed (1983) 740,128, (1996) 1,348,787 and (2014) 1,578,068 residents. Between 1983 and 1996 there was an annual population growth of 4.4%. In contrast, the number of residents only grew by 0.9% annually between 1996 and 2014.

Of the population (2014) 762,301 were male and 815,767 (51.7% of the population) were female. Only 368,596 people (23.4% of the population) lived in urban areas in 2014.

The region is linguistically very fragmented. The dominant languages ​​at the state level, Poular (also Peul; 3.5% of the population), Malinke (9.2% of the population) and Sussu (0.3% of the population) are only minority languages ​​in the region. The main languages ​​in the Nzérékoré region are Koniaka (24.4% of the population), Kpèlé (23.4% of the population), Kissi (15.4% of the population), Toma (7.8% of the population) and Kono ( 4.9% of the population).

While the other regions of Guinea are almost completely Islamized (89.1% nationwide in 2014), this is not (yet) the case in the Nzérékoré region. Islam (46.7% of the population) and Christianity (28.1% of the population) have increased significantly in the last fifty years. However, significant parts of the residents are still followers of their traditional religions. And many Muslims and Christians practice a mixed religion of old and new faith.

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