Zadié (department) explained

Zadié
Settlement Type:	Department
Mapsize:	350px
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Gabon
Subdivision Type1:	Province
Subdivision Name1:	Ogooué-Ivindo Province
Unit Pref:	Imperial
Population As Of:	2013
Population Footnotes:	^[1]
Population Total:	15816
Timezone:	GMT +1
Utc Offset:	+1

Zadié is a department of Ogooué-Ivindo Province in northern-eastern Gabon. The capital lies at Mékambo. As of 2013 the department had a population of 15,816 people.^[2] The department has a population of Bakoya pygmies, settled here since about 1933 along the main roads from Mékambo to Mazingo and Mékambo to Ekata on the Congolese border.^[3] The area received international press for outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in 1994 and 1997.

Administrative divisions

The department contains the following administrative divisions. The population as of the 2013 census is given:^[4]

• Commune de Mékambo (6,744)
• Canton Bengoué (1,123)
• Canton Djouah (2,636)
• Canton Loué (3,928)
• Canton Sassamongo (1,385)

1.0167°N 69°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: Résultats Globaux du Recensement Général de la Population et des Logements de 2013 du Gabon (RGPL-2013) . Direction Générale des Statistiques du Gabon . 7 May 2020.
2. Web site: Résultats Globaux du Recensement Général de la Population et des Logements de 2013 du Gabon (RGPL-2013) . Direction Générale des Statistiques du Gabon . 7 May 2020.
3. Web site: Soengas, Beatriz. PRELIMINARY ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH ON THE BAKOYA. African Study Monographs, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris . 30 (4): 187-208. December 2009. 12 November 2013.
4. Web site: Résultats Globaux du Recensement Général de la Population et des Logements de 2013 du Gabon (RGPL-2013) . Direction Générale des Statistiques du Gabon . 7 May 2020.