Sanmatenga

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Sanmatenga
Basic data
Region : Center north
Capital : Kaya
Departments : 11
High Commissioner :
Area : 9290 km²
Residents : 725,014
(2013 estimate)
ISO 3166-2 : BF-SMT
location
Burkina Faso - Sanmatenga.svg

Sanmatenga is a province in the Center-North region of the West African state of Burkina Faso . It consists of eleven departments and municipalities. The capital is Kaya . Most of the Mossi people live in the province . A new reservoir is located in Ziga , which supplies the capital Ouagadougou with water.

Location of the departments / municipalities

map No. Department / municipality
1 Barsalogho
2 Boussouma
3 Dablo
4th Kaya
5 Korsimoro
6th Namissiguima
7th Mané
8th Penza
9 Pibaore
10 Pissila
11 Ziga

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b 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]).