Toma (Burkina Faso)
| Toma | |||
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| Status: | commune urbaine | ||
| Region: | Boucle du Mouhoun | ||
| Province: | Nayala | ||
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| Residents: | 29.003 | ||
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| Structure: | 16 villages / 7 sectors | ||
| Mayor: | Jean-Baptiste Dala | ||
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Toma is both a municipality ( French commune rurale ) and a department encompassing the same area in the West African state of Burkina Faso in the Boucle du Mouhoun region and the Nayala province . The community has 29,003 inhabitants in 16 villages and seven sectors of the main town, the majority being Sanan .
Toma is the capital of the Nayala Province and the birthplace of the historian and politician Joseph Ki-Zerbo . There is a partnership with Wadern (Saarland).
Localities
- Toma (12,587 inhabitants)
- Goa (651 inhabitants)
- Goussi (516 inhabitants)
- Koin (3,330 inhabitants)
- Kolan (955 inhabitants)
- Konti (345 inhabitants)
- Niémé (650 inhabitants)
- Nyon (551 inhabitants)
- Pankélé (1,934 inhabitants)
- Raotenga (242 inhabitants)
- Sawa (848 inhabitants)
- Semba (531 inhabitants)
- Sien (707 inhabitants)
- Siépa (730 inhabitants)
- Tô (1,354 inhabitants)
- Yayo (175 inhabitants)
- Zouma (2,964 inhabitants)
Personalities
- Joseph Ki-Zerbo (1922–2006), historian and politician
- Prosper Bonaventure Ky (* 1965), Bishop of Dédougou
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Preliminary results of the 2006 census (PDF; 3.3 MB)
- ^ Wadern-Toma partnership . stadt-wadern.de. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 2, 2013.
- ↑ List of Villes et Villes de la région de la Boucle du Mouhoun . Inforoute communale. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
Coordinates: 12 ° 46 ′ N , 2 ° 53 ′ W