People and Culture
As of May 2000, its total population is 215,356 with an annual growth rate of 1.3% from 1995 to 2000 and a population density of 142 per sq. kilometer. Almost all of the people of the province are natural born citizens. Naturalized citizens mostly Chinese and some other nationalities is only about one per cent of the population.
The number of households totaled 41,019 with an average household size of 5.25.
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