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Touka Gettan
Touka is a village in the Kongoussi Department of Bam Province Bam is one of the 45 provinces of Burkina Faso. It is located in Centre-Nord Region and the capital of Bam is Kongoussi. In 2019 it has a population of 473,955. It is a rural province with 420,314 of its residents living in the countryside; only ... in northern Burkina Faso. It has a population of 789. References External links Satellite map at Maplandia.com Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regions Of Burkina Faso
Per Law No.40/98/AN in 1998, Burkina Faso adhered to decentralization to provide administrative and financial autonomy to local communities. Most of these, according to their individual articles, were implemented on 2 July 2001. Burkina Faso is divided into 13 administrative regions. Each region is administered by a governor. These regions are divided into 45 provinces and subdivided into 351 communes. See also * List of regions of Burkina Faso by Human Development Index * Provinces of Burkina Faso * Departments/Communes of Burkina Faso *Geography of Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) is a landlocked Sahel country that shares borders with six nations. It lies between the Sahara desert and the Gulf of Guinea, south of the loop of the Niger River, mostly between latitudes 9° and 15°N ... * ISO 3166-2:BF References See also Regions of Burkina Faso at Statoids.com {{Burkina Faso topics Subdivisions of Burkina Faso Burkina Faso, Regions Burki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre-Nord Region
Centre-Nord is one of thirteen administrative regions of Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in Africa. The population of Centre-Nord in 2019 was 1,872,126. The region's capital is Kaya. Three provinces— Bam, Namentenga, and Sanmatenga, make up the region. , the population of the region was 1,872,126 with 52.6% females. The population in the region was 9.13% of the total population of the country. The child mortality rate was 55, infant mortality rate was 64 and the mortality of children under five was 116. As of 2007, the literacy rate in the region was 16.6%, compared to a national average of 28.3%. The coverage of cereal need compared to the total production of the region was 70.00%. Geography Most of Burkina Faso is a wide plateau formed by riverine systems and is called falaise de Banfora. There are three major rivers, the Red Volta, Black Volta and White Volta, which cuts through different valleys. The climate is generally hot, with unreliable rains across different sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces Of Burkina Faso
The regions of Burkina Faso are divided into 45 administrative provinces. These 45 provinces are currently sub-divided into 351 departments or communes. List of provinces by region Here is a list of the provinces, with their capitals in parentheses: Central Burkina Faso Centre Region * Kadiogo (Ouagadougou) (#14 in map) Centre-Nord Region * Bam ( Kongoussi) (#2 in map) * Namentenga (Boulsa) (#26 in map) * Sanmatenga ( Kaya) (#34 in map) Centre-Sud Region * Bazèga ( Kombissiri) (#4 in map) * Nahouri (Pô) (#25 in map) * Zoundwéogo (Manga) (#45 in map) Plateau-Central Region * Ganzourgou (Zorgho) (#9 in map) * Kourwéogo ( Boussé) (#21 in map) * Oubritenga ( Ziniaré) (#29 in map) Eastern Burkina Faso Centre-Est Region * Boulgou ( Tenkodogo) (#6 in map) * Koulpélogo (Ouargaye) (#19 in map) * Kouritenga (Koupéla) (#20 in map) Est Region * Gnagna ( Bogandé) (#10 in map) * Gourma (Fada N'gourma) (#11 in map) * Komondjari (Gayéri) (#16 in map) * Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bam Province
Bam is one of the 45 provinces of Burkina Faso. It is located in Centre-Nord Region and the capital of Bam is Kongoussi. In 2019 it has a population of 473,955. It is a rural province with 420,314 of its residents living in the countryside; only 53,641 live in urban areas. There are 229,786 men living in Bam Province and 244,169 women. Bam is divided into 9 departments: Twin towns * Kongoussi is twinned with: ** Canteleu, Seine-Maritime, France ** Landerneau, Finistère, France See also * Regions of Burkina Faso * Provinces of Burkina Faso *Communes of Burkina Faso The provinces of Burkina Faso are divided into 351 departments (as of 2014 and since local elections of 2012), whose urbanized areas (cities, towns and villages) are grouped into the same commune (municipality) with the same name as the department ... References {{Bam-geo-stub Provinces of Burkina Faso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Departments Of Burkina Faso
The provinces of Burkina Faso are divided into 351 departments (as of 2014 and since local elections of 2012), whose urbanized areas (cities, towns and villages) are grouped into the same commune (municipality) with the same name as the department. The department also covers rural areas (including national natural parks) that are not governed locally by the elected municipal council of the commune (presided by its mayor, with representants elected for each village or urban sector), but by the state represented at departmental level by a prefect (supervized by the haut-commissaire of its province, themself assisted by a general secretary and acting under the hierarchic authority the governor of its region, all of them being nominated by the national government). Status of communes The 351 communes (municipalities) created for each one of these departments have three kinds of status : * 49 urban communes are grouping their main city/town (subdivided into urban sectors) and all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kongoussi Department
Kongoussi is a department or commune of Bam Province in north-western Burkina Faso. Its capital is the town of Kongoussi. According to the 2019 census the department has a total population of 121,585. Towns and villages *Kongoussi * Badinogo (number 1) * Badinogo (number 2) * Birou * Boalin * Bogonam * Bogonam-Foulbé * Daribiti (number 1) * Daribiti (number 2) * Darigma * Dinguilga * Imieré * Gonsé * Kiella * Kora * Kora-Foulbé * Kondibito * Kougrisséogo * Kouka * Koumbango * Kourpellé * Loagha * Loagha-Foulbé * Lourgou * Mogodin * Nakindougou * Niénéga-Mossi * Niénéga-Foulbé * Nongsom * Nongsom-Foulbé * Ranga * Rambo-Wottionma * Rissiam * Sam * Sakou * Sakou-Foulbé * Sandouré * Sankondé *Sargo The sargo or white seabream (''Diplodus sargus'') is a species of seabream native to the eastern Atlantic and western Indian Oceans. It is found from the Bay of Biscay southwards to South Africa, including Madeira and the Canary Islands, the Med ... * Seno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and the Ivory Coast to the southwest. It has a population of 20,321,378. Previously called Republic of Upper Volta (1958–1984), it was renamed Burkina Faso by President Thomas Sankara. Its citizens are known as ''Burkinabè'' ( ), and its capital and largest city is Ouagadougou. The largest ethnic group in Burkina Faso is the Mossi people, who settled the area in the 11th and 13th centuries. They established powerful kingdoms such as the Ouagadougou, Tenkodogo, and Yatenga. In 1896, it was colonized by the French as part of French West Africa; in 1958, Upper Volta became a self-governing colony within the French Community. In 1960, it gained full independence with Maurice Yaméogo as president. Throughout the decad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Places In The Centre-Nord Region
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a census, a process of collecting, analysing, compiling, and publishing data regarding a population. Perspectives of various disciplines Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of populations. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
