Gnagna

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Gnagna
Basic data
Region : Est
Capital : Bogandé
Departments : 7th
High Commissioner :
Area : 8470 km²
Residents : 499,511
(2013 estimate)
ISO 3166-2 : BF-GNA
location
Burkina Faso - Gnagna.svg

Gnagna is a province in the Est region in the West African state of Burkina Faso with 499,511 inhabitants on 8470 km².

The province lies in the east and is rather sparsely populated. There are no asphalt roads, but there are airfields in Bogandé . The province is the center of Burkinabe peanut cultivation, and there are also irrigation cultures near the smaller reservoirs, for example near Manni.

Location of the departments / municipalities

map No. Department / municipality
1 Bilanga
2 Bogandé
3 Coalla
4th Liptougou
5 Mani
6th Piéla
7th Thion

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]).