Passoré

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Passoré
Basic data
Region : North
Capital : Yako
Departments : 9
High Commissioner :
Area : 3866 km²
Residents : 326,386
(2013 estimate)
ISO 3166-2 : BF-PAS
location
Burkina Faso - Passoré.svg

Passoré is a province in the north region of the West African state Burkina Faso with 326,386 inhabitants (2013) on 3866 km².

It is mainly inhabited by the Mossi and Fulbe , whose livelihood is mainly subsistence farming . The main town is Yako .

Administrative division

Departments of the Province of Passoré

The Passoré province is divided into 9 departments:

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]).