Boulkiemdé Province Explained

Boulkiemdé
Settlement Type:Province
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Image Map1:Boulkiemde departments.png
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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]

Education

In 2011 the province had 437 primary schools and 65 secondary schools.[2]

Healthcare

In 2011 the province had 75 health and social promotion centers (Centres de santé et de promotion sociale), 20 doctors and 262 nurses.[2]

Departments

Boulkiemde is divided into 13 departments as follows:

DepartmentCapitalPopulation
(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

In pop-culture

Boulkiemdé (specifically the department of Bingo) was a location in the American television series The Amazing Race 12 (2007).

See also

References

  1. https://www.citypopulation.de/en/burkinafaso/admin/BF50/ Citypopulation.de
  2. Web site: La région du Centre-Ouest en chiffres. 2011. Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie (INSD). 6. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121113145338/http://www.insd.bf/fr/IMG/pdf/CentreOuest_2011.pdf. 2012-11-13.
  3. Web site: National 2006 census preliminary results . 2008-05-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150721185435/http://www.insd.bf/Documents/Publications/INSD/Publications/Resultats_enquetes/Autres%20enq/Rapport_preliminaire_RGPH06.pdf . 2015-07-21 . dead .

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