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Key facts
- Country
- Chile
- Capital
- Chillán
- Provinces
- Diguillín , Itata , Punilla
- Governor
- Óscar Crisóstomo ( PS )
- Total
- 13,178.5 km (5,088.2 sq mi)
- Density
- 38.8731/km (100.681/sq mi)
- Demonym
- ñublense / ñublensino-a
- Hdi 2019
- 0.826 , very high
- Website
- (in Spanish) Gobierno Regional de Ñuble
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region of Chile
- Demonym
- ñublensino
- Country
- Chile
- Located in
- Chile
- Contains
- Punilla Province
- Capital
- Chillán
- Population
- 512289
- Area
- 13178.5
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Shares border with
- Neuquén Province
- Official website
- goredenuble.cl
- Image
- Río Ñuble, región de Ñuble, Chile.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Ñuble Region
- inception
- 2018-09-06
- different from
- Ñuble
- replaces
- Ñuble Province
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Ñuble Region
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- Ñuble Region
- Commons category
- Ñuble Region
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Encyclopedic overview
The Ñuble Region (Spanish: Región de Ñuble, pronounced [ˈɲuble], from the Mapudungun Ngüflew/Ngüvlew meaning 'narrow river') officially the Region of Ñuble, is one of Chile's sixteen regions. It spans an area of 13,178.5 km (5,088 sq mi), making it the smallest region in Chile in terms of area, and is administratively constituted by 21 communes. It has a population of 512,289 inhabitants. Its capital is the city of Chillán.
The region, located in the south-central part of the country, borders the Maule Region to the north, the province of Neuquén in Argentina to the east, the Biobío Region to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Its main urban centre is Greater Chillán, comprising the city of the same name and the surrounding urban area, with a total population of 223,070, followed by San Carlos with 55,847 inhabitants.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ñuble Region” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.