Key facts
- Country
- Mauritania
- Departments
- 7 Amourj Bassiknou Djiguenni Néma Oualata Timbédra N'Beiket Lahwach
- Capital
- Néma
- Total
- 182,700 km (70,500 sq mi)
- Density
- 3.424/km (8.869/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+0
- Summer dst
- not observed
- Iso 3166 code
- MR-01
- Hdi 2017
- 0.457 , low
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region of Mauritania
- Country
- Mauritania
- Located in
- Mauritania
- Contains
- Bassikounou Department
- Capital
- Néma
- Population
- 430668
- Area
- 182267
- Elevation
- 266
- Shares border with
- Hodh El Gharbi
- Image
- NemaLookingSouth.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
Hodh Ech Chargui (Arabic: ولاية الحوض الشرقي, romanized: Wilāyat al-Ḥawḍ al-Sharqī, lit. 'Eastern Basin Region') is a large region in eastern Mauritania, with an area of 182,700 km. Its capital is Néma, but the largest town, in Bassiknou Department, is Fassala (or Vassale) at the extreme southeast of Mauritania, with 65,927 inhabitants at the 2013 census. The region borders the Mauritanian regions of Adrar, Tagant and Hodh El Gharbi to the west and Mali to the east and south. The Aoukar basin, which formerly gave name to a greater region, is located in the western part of Hodh Ech Chargui.
As of 2013, the population of the region was 430,668, compared to 363,071 in 2011. There were 47.71 percent females and 52.29 percent males. As of 2008, the activity rate was 61.50 and economic dependency ratio was 1.11. As of 2008, the literacy rate for people aged 15 years and over was 53.90.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hodh Ech Chargui” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.