Gourma (Burkina Faso)
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Region : | Est |
Capital : | Fada N'Gourma |
Departments : | 6th |
High Commissioner : | |
Area : | 11,145 km² |
Residents : | 379,023 (2013 estimate) |
ISO 3166-2 : | BF-GOU |
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Gourma is a province in the Est region in the West African state of Burkina Faso with 379,023 inhabitants on 11,145 km².
It is located in the east of the country and the capital is Fada N'Gourma . In the course of the redistribution of the administrative units on April 24, 1996, the province of Gourma was considerably reduced by the formation of the provinces Komondjari , Kompienga and Koulpélogo . The inhabitants are mainly members of the gourmand .
Location of the departments and communes
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 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]).