Médina Yoro Foulah (Département)
The Médina Yoro Foulah department, with the capital Médina Yoro Foulah, is one of 45 departments that make up Senegal and one of three departments that make up the Kolda region . It is located in southern Senegal and is found in the east of the Casamance, north of the upper Casamance River and on the border with Gambia .
The department has an area of 4687 km² and is divided into arrondissements, communes and rural communities (communautés rurales) as follows:
Commune / Arrondissement |
Communauté rurale |
Residents 2013 |
Médina Yoro Foulah | - | 3,286 |
Pata | - | 3 416 |
Fafacourou | Fafacourou | 7 743 |
Fafacourou | Badion | 13 785 |
Ndorna | Ndorna | 13 399 |
Ndorna | Bignarabé | 7 421 |
Ndorna | Bourouco | 27 651 |
Ndorna | Koulinto | 7 514 |
Niaming | Dinguiraye (Kolda) | 16 065 |
Niaming | Kéréwane | 35 934 |
Niaming | Niaming | 15 052 |
Department | - | 151 265 |
Individual evidence
- ^ Service Régional de la Statistique et de la Démographie de Kolda: Situation economique et sociale regional 2012 Area, page 18 of the PDF file 1.76 MB
- ↑ ANSD: Rapport Projection de la Population du Senegal 2013 - 2063 (RGPHAE 2013) Region Kolda Pages 64 to 65 of the PDF file 1.44 MB
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Coordinates: 13 ° 15 ′ N , 14 ° 45 ′ W