Bakel (department)
The Bakel department is one of 45 departments that make up Senegal and one of four departments that make up the Tambacounda region . It is located in the southeast of Senegal with the capital Bakel .
The Bakel department had an area of 22,378 km² until 2008. This year, a new department with the prefecture of Goudiry was created from the western part by outsourcing , so that the Bakel department has reduced to 5378 km². It is divided into arrondissements, communes and rural communities (communautés rurales) as follows:
| Commune / Arrondissement |
Communauté rurale |
Residents 2013 |
| Bakel | - | 13,329 |
| Diawara | - | 7,540 |
| Kidira | - | 10,065 |
| Kénieba | Gathiary | 3,039 |
| Kénieba | Madina Foulbe | 2,323 |
| Kénieba | Sadatou | 9,842 |
| Kénieba | Toumboura | 3,483 |
| Bélé | Bélé | 16,986 |
| Bélé | Sinthiou Fissa | 8,326 |
| Moudéry | Ballou | 21,345 |
| Moudéry | Gabou | 19.002 |
| Moudéry | Moudéry | 23,589 |
| Department | - | 138,867 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Service Régional de la Statistique et de la Démographie de Tambacounda: Situation economique et sociale regional 2005 Area up to 2008: Page 10 of the PDF file 0.37 MB
- ↑ Service Régional de la Statistique et de la Démographie de Tambacounda: Situation economique et sociale regional 2014 Area since 2008: Page 27 of the PDF file 2.02 MB
- ↑ DECRET n ° 2008-747 du 10 juillet 2008 portant création de départements et d'arrondissements ( Memento of August 2, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Service Régional de la Statistique et de la Démographie de Tambacounda: Situation economique et sociale regional 2013 Population figures page 16 and 113 of the PDF file 1.10 MB
Coordinates: 14 ° 50 ′ N , 12 ° 30 ′ W
Administrative division of Senegal