Boulkiemdé | |
Settlement Type: | Province |
Mapsize: | 300px |
Image Map1: | Boulkiemde departments.png |
Mapsize1: | 300px |
Map Caption1: | Provincial map of its departments |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Burkina Faso |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Centre-Ouest Region |
Seat Type: | Capital |
Seat: | Koudougou |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Km2: | 4268 |
Population As Of: | 2019 census |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 689,184 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Urban: | 160239 |
Timezone: | GMT 0 |
Utc Offset: | +0 |
Boulkiemdé is one of the 45 provinces of Burkina Faso and is in Centre-Ouest Region. The capital of Boulkiemdé is Koudougou. The population of Boulkiemdé was 498,008 in 2006 and 567,680 in 2011.[2]
In 2011 the province had 437 primary schools and 65 secondary schools.[2]
In 2011 the province had 75 health and social promotion centers (Centres de santé et de promotion sociale), 20 doctors and 262 nurses.[2]
Boulkiemde is divided into 13 departments as follows:
Department | Capital | Population (Census 2006)[3] | |
---|---|---|---|
15,100 | |||
22,401 | |||
33,347 | |||
38,988 | |||
131,825 | |||
23,266 | |||
33,291 | |||
19,243 | |||
30,317 | |||
23,081 | |||
45,877 | |||
27,336 | |||
15,937 | |||
13,748 | |||
24,251 |
Boulkiemdé (specifically the department of Bingo) was a location in the American television series The Amazing Race 12 (2007).