The prefecture covers an area of 18,520 km² and, according to official estimates, its population was 254,649 inhabitants in 2024.

[2] At the time of the country's last official census, in 2003, the population was 430,506 inhabitants in an area of 32,100 km².

[5] These are data from before December 2020, when part of the territory was dismembered to create the Lim-Pendé prefecture.

The region has contained several ghost towns such as Goroumo due to government forces ransacking them and armed bandits killing all the male inhabitants over the years from 2005 to 2008.

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