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Ouest

Ouest or Lwès 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 .
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  • Type: State with 3,660,000 residents
  • Description: department of Haiti
  • Also known as: “Departement de l’Ouest”, “Department of the West”, “Ouest Department”, “Ouest, Haiti”, “West”, “West Department”, and “West Department, Haiti”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cabaret and Arcahaie.

Town
is a commune in the , in the Ouest department of . In 2009, the commune had 62,063 inhabitants. During his dictatorship, François Duvalier renamed it Duvalierville; in 1961 a construction project was begun.

Town
is a commune in the , in the Ouest department of . In 2015, the commune had 130,306 inhabitants. During the Gang war in Haiti on 10 October 2024, the town was attacked by the Taliban gang, causing an unspecified number of casualties.

Village
is a village in the Cabaret commune in the , in the Ouest department of . It is located in a mountainous region around 30 kilometres from , the capital.

Ouest

Latitude
18.7669° or 18° 46′ 1″ north
Longitude
-72.4387° or 72° 26′ 19″ west
Population
3,660,000
Elevation
55 metres (180 feet)
Open location code
77C9QH86+PG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 618762860
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3719432
Wiki­data ID
Q1434621
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Ouest” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الإدارة الغربية”
  • Armenian: “Քուեսթ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Haitinin Qərb departamenti”
  • Belarusian: “Заходні дэпартамент Гаіці”
  • Belarusian: “Заходні дэпартамэнт”
  • Bengali: “আউয়েস্ট”
  • Catalan: “Ouest”
  • Cebuano: “Département de l’Ouest”
  • Chinese: “Ouest Koān”
  • Chinese: “西部省”
  • Croatian: “Ouest, Haiti”
  • Croatian: “Ouest”
  • Czech: “Ouest”
  • Danish: “Ouest”
  • Dutch: “Ouest”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Okcidento”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Ouest”
  • Esperanto: “Okcidenta Departemento”
  • Finnish: “Ouest”
  • French: “Département de l’Ouest”
  • French: “Ouest”
  • German: “Département Ouest”
  • German: “Ouest”
  • German: “West”
  • Greek: “Ντεπαρτεμάν ντε λ’Ουέστ”
  • Greek: “Ουέστ”
  • Gujarati: “ઔએસ્ટ”
  • Haitian: “Depatman Lwès”
  • Haitian: “Lwès”
  • Haitian: “Wès”
  • Hindi: “ऊएस्ट”
  • Indonesian: “Ouest”
  • Italian: “dipartimento dell’Ovest”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento dell’Ovest”
  • Japanese: “ウエスト県”
  • Japanese: “ルウェス県”
  • Japanese: “西県”
  • Kannada: “ಓಯೆಸ್ಟ್”
  • Korean: “서부주”
  • Latvian: “Rietumi”
  • Lithuanian: “Vestas”
  • Malay: “Ouest”
  • Marathi: “आउस्ट”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ouest Koān”
  • Mingrelian: “ბჟადალი დეპარტამენტი (ჰაიტი)”
  • Mingrelian: “ბჟადალი დეპარტამენტი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ouest (Department uun Haiti)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ouest”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ouest”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ouest i Haiti”
  • Norwegian: “Ouest”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Departament de l’Oèst”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Oèst”
  • Persian: “شهرستان غربی”
  • Polish: “Departament Ouest”
  • Polish: “Departament Zachodni”
  • Portuguese: “Oeste”
  • Portuguese: “Ouest”
  • Russian: “Западный департамент”
  • Sinhala: “ඕඑස්ට් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, හයිටිය”
  • Sinhala: “ඖඑස්ට්”
  • Spanish: “Departamento Oeste”
  • Spanish: “Oeste”
  • Swedish: “Ouest”
  • Tajik: “департаменти Ғарбӣ”
  • Tamil: “ஆயுஸ்ட்”
  • Telugu: “ఓయెస్ట్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดแว็สต์”
  • Turkish: “Ouest”
  • Ukrainian: “Західний департамент”
  • Urdu: “مغربی ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “مغربی محکمہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Ouest”

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