Key facts
- Country
- Chile
- Region
- Bío Bío
- Capital
- Chillán
- Communes
- List of 21: Bulnes Cobquecura Coelemu Coihueco Chillán Chillán Viejo El Carmen Ninhue Ñiquén Pemuco Pinto Portezuelo Quillón Quirihue Ránquil San Carlos San Fabián San Ignacio San Nicolás Treguaco Yungay
- Total
- 13,178.5 km (5,088.2 sq mi)
- Density
- 34.9139/km (90.4266/sq mi)
- Urban
- 285,108
- Rural
- 152,995
- Men
- 217,024
- Women
- 221,079
- Time zone
- UTC-4 ( CLT )
- Summer dst
- UTC-3 ( CLST )
- Area code
- 56 + 42
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- province of Chile
- Country
- Chile
- Located in
- Biobío Region
- Contains
- Yungay
- Capital
- Chillán
- Official language
- Spanish
- Population
- 480609
- Area
- 13178.5
- Elevation
- 169
- Shares border with
- Minas Department
- Official website
- www.gobernacionnuble.gov.cl
- Image
- Nipas y rio Itata.jpg
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2018-09-05
- replaced by
- Ñuble Region
- inception
- 1974-00-00
- native label
- Provincia de Ñuble
Sources (6)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ñuble Province (Spanish: Provincia de Ñuble, pronounced [ˈɲuβle]) was one of the provinces of the Chilean region of Bío Bío (VIII). It used to span an area of 13,178.5 km (5,088 sq mi) and it was administratively constituted by 21 communes. It has in 2017 a population of 441,604 inhabitants. Its capital was the city of Chillán. On the 6th of September of 2018, the province became the Ñuble Region.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ñuble Province” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.