Back الإدارة الغربية (هايتي) Arabic Haitinin Qərb departamenti Azerbaijani Département de l'Ouest CEB Ouest (Haiti) Danish Département Ouest German Departemento Ouest Esperanto Departamento Oeste (Haití) Spanish شهرستان غربی Persian Ouest (Haiti) Finnish Ouest (département d'Haïti) French
Ouest
Lwès | |
|---|---|
&sq=Sri Lanka&lang=en&file=File:Playa_Ta%C3%AFno_-_panoramio.jpg) Taïno Beach, Grand-Goâve | |
&sq=Sri Lanka&lang=en&file=File:Ouest_in_Haiti.svg) Ouest in Haiti | |
| Country | &sq=Sri Lanka&lang=en&file=File:Flag_of_Haiti.svg){kind=small} Haiti |
| Capital | Port-au-Prince |
| Région | South-Central |
| Symbole | Boat, tower, queen bee |
| Government | |
| • Type | Departmental Council |
| Area | |
| 4,982.56 km2 (1,923.78 sq mi) | |
| Population (2015)[1] | |
| 4,029,705 | |
| • Density | 810/km2 (2,100/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 3,397,404 |
| • Rural | 632,301 |
| Time zone | UTC-05:00 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-04:00 (EDT) |
| ISO 3166 code | HT-OU |
| HDI (2021) | 0.550[2] medium · 1st |
Ouest (French, pronounced [wɛst] ⓘ) or Lwès (Haitian Creole; both meaning "West") is one of the ten departments of Haiti. It is located in south-central Haiti, linking the Great-North and the Tiburon Peninsula.
It is the jurisdictional seat of the national capital, the city of Port-au-Prince.
It has an area of 4,982.56 square kilometres (1,923.78 sq mi) and a population of 4,029,705 (2015 estimate), making it both the largest department by area and the most populated department in Haiti.
- ^ "Population Totale, De 18 ANS ET Plus" (PDF). Ministere De Le E'Conomie Et Des Finances (MEF). Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.