Nakambé (région)
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Key facts
- Country
- Burkina Faso
- Capital
- Tenkodogo
- Region
- 14,656 km (5,659 sq mi)
- Density
- 107.67/km (278.88/sq mi)
- Urban
- 292,856
- Time zone
- UTC+0 (GMT 0)
- Hdi 2017
- 0.418 , low · 6th
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region of Burkina Faso
- Country
- Burkina Faso
- Located in
- Burkina Faso
- Contains
- Kouritenga Province
- Capital
- Tenkodogo
- Area
- 11811.0
- Shares border with
- Goulmou
- Image
- Burkina-faso-dourtenga.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Centre-Est Region
- Commons category
- Nakambé (région)
- language used
- Bissa
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Encyclopedic overview
Centre-Est ([sɑ̃tʁ.ɛst], "East Central") is one of Burkina Faso's 13 administrative regions. The population of Centre-Est was 1,578,075 in 2019. The region's capital is Tenkodogo. Three provinces (Boulgou, Koulpélogo, and Kouritenga) make up the region.
As of 2019, the population of the region was 1,578,075 with 53.5% females. The population in the region was 7.7% of the total population of the country. The child mortality rate was 39, infant mortality rate was 56 and the mortality of children under five was 93. As of 2007, the literacy rate in the region was 16.6%, compared with a national average of 28.3%.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nakambé (région)” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.