Comoé (province)

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Comoé
Basic data
Region : Cascades
Capital : Banfora
Departments : 9
High Commissioner : Pierre Wango
Area : 15,302 km²
Residents : 535,136
(2013 estimate)
ISO 3166-2 : BF-COM
location
Burkina Faso - Comoé.svg

Comoé is a province in the Cascades region in the West African state of Burkina Faso with 535,136 inhabitants on 15,302 km².

It is named after the Comoé river that flows through it and the capital is Banfora .

The Cascades de Banfora and the Dômes de Fabédougou are of particular touristic importance .

Location of the departments / municipalities

map No. Department / municipality
Comoe departments.png
1 Banfora
2 Bérégadougou
3 Mangodara
4th Moussodougou
5 Niangoloko
6th Ouo
7th Sidéradougou
8th Soubakaniédougou
9 Tiéfora

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Institut national de la statistique et de la demographie [INSD] (ed.): Annuaire statistique 2013 . December 2014, Tableau 01.01: List des communes par région et par province en 2013 , Tableau 02.17: Population et densité par région et province , Tableau 02.20: Population du Burkina Faso par province de 2001 à 2013 en milieu d'année , p. 5–6, 22–23, 32–35 (French, insd.bf [PDF; 3.2 MB ; accessed on February 27, 2015]).