Cuvette-Ouest Department
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Key facts
- Country
- Republic of the Congo
- Capital
- Ewo
- Total
- 26,600 km (10,300 sq mi)
- Density
- 4.49/km (11.6/sq mi)
- Hdi 2018
- 0.514 , low · 9th of 12
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of the Republic of the Congo
- Country
- Republic of the Congo
- Located in
- Republic of the Congo
- Capital
- Ewo
- Population
- 119328
- Area
- 26600.0
- Elevation
- 423
- Shares border with
- Cuvette Department
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- Commons category
- Cuvette-Ouest Department
- topic's main category
- Category:Cuvette-Ouest Department
- language used
- Akwa
- native label
- Cuvette-Ouest
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Encyclopedic overview
Cuvette-Ouest (or Western Cuvette) is a department of the Republic of the Congo in the western part of the country. Cuvette-Ouest is the least populated department in the country. It borders the departments of Cuvette, Sangha, and Plateaux, and internationally, Gabon. The capital is Ewo. Principal cities and towns include Kelle.
Cuvette-Ouest has been the site of several outbreaks of the Ebola virus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cuvette-Ouest Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.