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Kougny Department
Kougny is a department or commune of Nayala Province in western Burkina Faso. Its capital lies at the town of Kougny. According to the 1996 census the department has a total population of 15,383. Towns and villages * Kougny (3 633 inhabitants) (capital) * Goin (1 567 inhabitants) * Gounian (1 434 inhabitants) * Gouri (1 182 inhabitants) * |
Departments Of Burkina Faso
The provinces of Burkina Faso are divided into 351 departments (as of 2014 and since local elections of 2012), whose urbanized areas (cities, towns and villages) are grouped into the same commune (municipality) with the same name as the department. The department also covers rural areas (including national natural parks) that are not governed locally by the elected municipal council of the commune (presided by its mayor, with representants elected for each village or urban sector), but by the state represented at departmental level by a prefect (supervized by the haut-commissaire of its province, themself assisted by a general secretary and acting under the hierarchic authority the governor of its region, all of them being nominated by the national government). Status of communes The 351 communes (municipalities) created for each one of these departments have three kinds of status : * 49 urban communes are grouping their main city/town (subdivided into urban sectors) and all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
