Sul Province
The province Sul ( port. Província Sul , dt. Southern Province) is one of the three provinces of Guinea-Bissau . Your ISO 3166-2 code is GW-S.
The provinces are the top tier of the administrative structure of Guinea-Bissau , but they do not play a role in the country's administrative practice and statistics.
The province of Sul is composed of three regions , the second and most important level of the administrative structure of Guinea-Bissau:
The province of Sul has an area of 9,498 km², making it the smallest province in the country. At 184,308, it is also the poorest province in terms of population; just over a tenth of Guinea-Bissau's population lives here.
Due to its remote location and poor infrastructure, the province is particularly underdeveloped. As a result, however, nature has often been able to remain almost untouched. So that was Bissagos Islands in 1996 by the UNESCO for Biosphere Reserve declared and the natural park Parque Natural de Cantanhez the Florestas with its mostly consisting of forest 1,057 km² counts for the WWF to the 12 most important WWF ecoregions of the Earth.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the statistical office of Guinea-Bissau ( INE ) with statistics only by regions and sectors and without provinces, pdf accessed on December 13, 2017
- ↑ Joana Petrolho, Marta Rosa: À Descoberta da Guiné-Bissau . , Afectos com Letras / EU , Pombal 2015, ISBN 978-989-20-6252-5 , pp. 93ff
Coordinates: 12 ° 3 ′ N , 16 ° 4 ′ W
