Ouangolodougou (also known as Wangolodougou) is a town in the far north of

Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital city of Yamoussoukro is located in the centre of the country, while its largest List of ci ...

, adjacent to the

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with

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km2 (105,87 ...

. It is a

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of and the seat of Ouangolodougou Department in

Tchologo Region Tchologo Region is one of the 31 regions of Ivory Coast. Since its establishment in 2011, it has been one of three regions in Savanes District. The seat of the region is Ferkessédougou and the region's population in the 2021 census was 603,084. T ...

Savanes District Savanes District (, , " Savannahs") is one of fourteen administrative districts of Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. It ...

. Ouangolodougou is also a commune. In 2021, the population of the sub-prefecture of Ouangolodougou was 82,801. Ouangolodougou is situated in the sub-Saharan

Sahel The Sahel region (; ), or Sahelian acacia savanna, is a Biogeography, biogeographical region in Africa. It is the Ecotone, transition zone between the more humid Sudanian savannas to its south and the drier Sahara to the north. The Sahel has a ...

savanna

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region, which is characterised by grasslands with trees. The town was founded by Sekou Watara in the early 18th century as part of the first wave of expansion of the

Kong Empire The Kong Empire (1710–1898), also known as the Wattara Empire or Ouattara Empire for its founder Seku Watara, was a pre-colonial state centered in what is now northeastern Ivory Coast that also encompassed much of present-day Burkina Faso a ...

. The Dioula inhabitants are descended from Watara's men.

Transport

The town is served by a station on the Abidjan-Niger Railway.

Villages

The 14 villages of the sub-prefecture of Ouangolodougou and their population in 2014 are:Citypopulation.de
Population of localities in the Ouangolodougou sub-prefecture

References

Sub-prefectures of Tchologo Communes of Tchologo {{SavanesCI-geo-stub