Wassoulou-Ballé | |
Settlement Type: | Commune |
Pushpin Map: | Mali |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Mali |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Mali |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Sikasso Region |
Subdivision Type2: | Cercle |
Subdivision Name2: | Yanfolila Cercle |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 1594 |
Population As Of: | 2009 census |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 51727 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Utc Offset: | +0 |
Coordinates: | 11.1786°N -8.1556°W |
Wassoulou-Ballé is a rural commune in the Cercle of Yanfolila in the Sikasso Region of southern Mali. The administrative center (chef-lieu) of the commune is the town of Yanfolila. The town is also the administrative center of the cercle. It lies 272 km west of Sikasso, 164 km south of Bamako and 23 km from the border with Guinea. The commune covers an area of 1,594 square kilometers and includes the town of Yanfolila and 29 villages.[3] In the 2009 census it had a population of 51,727.[2]