Centro Sur (
Spanish for "South-center") is a
province
A province is an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire, Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
of
Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. It has an area of . Formerly the colony of Spanish Guinea, its post-independence name refers to its location both near the Equ ...
. Its capital is
Evinayong.
Geography
Centro Sur borders
Gabon's Estuaire Province
Estuaire is the most populous of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 20,740 km. The provincial capital is Akanda, but the largest city is Libreville, Gabon's national capital. The province is named for the Gabon Estuary, which li ...
in the southwest and
Woleu-Ntem Province
Woleu-Ntem is the northernmost of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 38,465 km and named after Woleu and Ntem rivers that cross it. The provincial capital is Oyem, which had a total of 60,685 inhabitants in 2013.
As Woleu-Ntem ...
in the southeast, and
Cameroon's South Province in the north. Domestically, it borders
Kié-Ntem in the northeast,
Wele-Nzas in the southeast, and
Litoral
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in the west.
Centro Sur contains three main towns:
Akurenam,
Niefang and
Evinayong.
References
Provinces of Equatorial Guinea
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