Ouham-Pendé
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short description Template:Infobox settlement Ouham-Pendé is one of the 20 prefectures of the Central African Republic.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Its capital is Bozoum.
The prefecture covers an area of 18,520 km² and, according to official estimates, its population was 254,649 inhabitants in 2024.<ref name=2024-POP-EST>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> These are data from before December 2020, when part of the territory was dismembered to create the Lim-Pendé prefecture.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In the north it has a border with Cameroon and Chad. In the south is the prefecture Ombella-Mpoko, in the south-west the prefecture Nana-Mambéré and in the east the prefecture Ouham.
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.<ref name="BBC">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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