Tenkodogo

Tenkodogo
Status:	commune rurale
Region:	Center-Est
Province:	Boulgou
Residents:	124,985 (2006)
Structure:	6 sectors / 83 villages
Mayor:	Harouna Ouelogo
location
Tenkodogo  Burkina Faso
11 ° 47 ′  N , 0 ° 22 ′  W Coordinates: 11 ° 47 ′  N , 0 ° 22 ′  W

Tenkodogo is a city (commune urbaine) and a department encompassing the same area in the West African state of Burkina Faso .

It is the capital of the Center-Est region and the province of Boulgou and has 124,985 inhabitants in the six sectors of the capital and the 83 villages surrounding it.

The city was the capital of the Mossi empire of the same name , which existed until the French colonized it.

Church in Tenkodogo

Primary school in the village of Gando, part of Tenkodogo

sons and daughters of the town

• Luc-Adolphe Tiao (* 1954), Prime Minister of Burkina Faso since 2011, grew up in Tenkodogo.

See also

• List of cities in Burkina Faso

Web links

Commons : Tenkodogo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results of the 2006 census ( Memento from December 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 92 kB).