Ouellé Department is a
department of
Iffou Region
Iffou Region is one of the 31 regions of Ivory Coast. Since its establishment in 2011, it has been one of the regions in Lacs District. The seat of the region is Daoukro, and the region's population in the 2021 census was 378,560.
Iffou is curr ...
,
Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital city of Yamoussoukro is located in the centre of the country, while its largest List of ci ...
. In 2021, its population was 56,501 and its seat is the settlement of
Ouellé. The
sub-prefectures of the department are
Ouellé,
Akpassanou, and
Ananda.
History
Ouellé Department was created in 2020 by taking 3 sub-prefectures from the
Daoukro Department
Daoukro Department is a department of Iffou Region in Lacs District, Ivory Coast. In 2021, its population was 148,095 and its seat is the settlement of Daoukro. The sub-prefectures of the department are Daoukro, Ettrokro, N'Gattakro, and Sam ...
.
[Government of Côte d'Ivoire]
''Communiqué du conseil des ministres du 23 septembre 2020''
["Le premier préfet du département de Ouellé présenté à la population"]
Agence Ivoire Presse, 22 January 2021. Ouellé Department is the most recently created department in Ivory Coast.
Notes
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States and territories established in 2020