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Encyclopedia > Regions of Burkina Faso
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Image:BurkinaFaso_Regions.png Burkina Faso's 45 provinces are grouped into 13 administrative regions: Burkina Faso is divided into 45 administrative provinces, that are divided in Départements. ... A region can be either: an administrative subdivision of a country a sometimes vaguely-defined geographical area of a country or continent It is important to realize that regions are found in the minds of humans and so regions can be of any size and that each region is unique...


List of Burkinabé regions (capitals in parenthesis):

See Also: Geography of Burkina Faso Jump to: navigation, search Boucle du Mouhoun is one of Burkina Fasos 13 administrative regions. ... Jump to: navigation, search Cascades is one of Burkina Fasos 13 administrative regions. ... Banfora is a city in south western Burkina Faso with a population of around 50,000 people. ... Jump to: navigation, search Centre is one of Burkina Fasos 13 administrative regions. ... Typical street scene. ... Jump to: navigation, search Centre-Est is one of Burkina Fasos 13 administrative regions. ... Jump to: navigation, search Centre-Nord is one of Burkina Fasos 13 administrative regions. ... Kaya is a city in Burkina Faso, lying north east of Ouagadougou, to which it is connected by railway. ... Jump to: navigation, search Centre-Ouest is one of Burkina Fasos 13 administrative regions. ... Koudougou is a town in the province of Boulkiemdé, 75km west of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. ... Jump to: navigation, search Centre-Sud is one of Burkina Fasos 13 administrative regions. ... Jump to: navigation, search Est is one of Burkina Fasos 13 administrative regions. ... Fada Ngourma, also written Fada-Ngourma, is a city in Burkina Faso, lying in the east of the country, in the Gourmantché area. ... Jump to: navigation, search Hauts-Bassins is one of Burkina Fasos 13 administrative regions. ... Bobo-Dioulasso is a city of about 400,000, mainly Dioula, after Ouagadougou the second biggest in Burkina Faso. ... Jump to: navigation, search Nord is one of Burkina Fasos 13 administrative regions. ... Ouahigouya is the most important town in northern Burkina Faso. ... Jump to: navigation, search Plateau-Central is one of Burkina Fasos 13 administrative regions. ... The Sahel (from Arabic ساحل, sahil, shore or border) is the boundary zone in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the more fertile region to the south, known as the Sudan (not to be confused with the country of the same name). ... Gaoua is a market town in southern Burkina Faso. ... Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) is a landlocked Sahel country that shares borders with six nations. ...


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In order to reach this objective GC Burkina Faso intends to train the different members according to well determined specificities through short duration trainings and to organize training workshops and seminars.
Situation : In Burkina Faso, drought and the mismanagement of natural resources by man combined to bring about, more than four decades ago, what represents today one of the main environmental disaster in sub-Sahara Africa, that is, desertification.
In 1996, Green Cross Burkina Faso planted nearly 10,000 saplings in the provinces of Yatenga, Katiogo and Comoe.
Burkina Faso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1737 words)
Burkina Faso was an important economic region for the Songhai Empire during the 15th and 16th centuries.
Burkina Faso has a primarily tropical climate with two very distinct seasons: the rainy season with between 600 and 900 mm (24-35 inches) of rainfall, and the dry season during which the harmattan blows, a hot dry wind from the Sahara.
A relatively dry tropical savanna, the Sahel extends beyond the borders of Burkina Faso, from the Horn of Africa to the Atlantic Ocean, and borders the Sahara to its north, and the fertile region of the Sudan to the South.
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