Key facts
- Country
- Burkina Faso
- Capital
- Fada N'gourma
- Region
- 17,849 sq mi (46,228 km )
- Density
- 108.78/sq mi (41.998/km )
- Urban
- 138,916
- Time zone
- UTC+0 (GMT 0)
- Hdi 2017
- 0.332 , low · 12th
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region of Burkina Faso
- Country
- Burkina Faso
- Located in
- Burkina Faso
- Contains
- Tapoa Province
- Capital
- Fada N’Gourma
- Area
- 36256.0
- Shares border with
- Liptako
- Image
- Markt Fada NGourma MS 10181.jpg
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- Commons category
- Goulmou
- topic's main category
- Category:Est Region (Burkina Faso)
- language used
- Berba
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Encyclopedic overview
Est ([ɛst], "East") is one of Burkina Faso's 13 administrative regions. It was created on 2 July 2001. The region's capital is Fada N'gourma. Five provinces make up the region—Gnagna, Gourma, Komondjari, Kompienga, and Tapoa.
As of 2019, the population of the region was 1,941,505 with 51% females. The population in the region was 9.47% of the total population of the country. The child mortality rate was 98, infant mortality rate was 98 and the mortality of children under five was 186. As of 2007, the literacy rate in the region was 28.5%, compared with a national average of 28.3%. The coverage of cereal need compared with the total production of the region was 108%.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Goulmou” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.