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Ouest Department
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Ouest (French for West) is one of the ten departments of Haiti, located in south-central Haiti. It is the jurisdictional seat of Haiti's national capital, the city of Port-au-Prince. It has an area of 4,982.56 square kilometers and a population of 4,029,705 at a 2015 estimate, the largest department by both area and population in Haiti.
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Haiti, Countries Ouest Department is associated with Haiti.
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Ouest Department is on continent.
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1. Ouest Department (Wikipedia)
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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.
1. Ouest Department (Wikipedia)
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|area_total_km2 = 4982.56
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