Faramana is a town in

Houet Province Houet is one of the 45 provinces of Burkina Faso, located in its Hauts-Bassins Region. The capital of Houet is Bobo-Dioulasso. In 2019, the province had a population of 1,509,377. Departments Houet is divided into 13 departments (one of them, Bob ...

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Hauts-Bassins Region Hauts-Bassins is one of Burkina Faso's thirteen administrative Regions of Burkina Faso, regions. It was created on 2 July 2001. The region's capital is Bobo Dioulasso. Three Provinces of Burkina Faso, provinces make up the region—Houet, Kénéd ...

) in western

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the ...

, near the border of

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...

. It is the capital of Faramana Department, which further consists of 7 villages: * Bambe * Biena * Koakourima * Kobi * Kouni * Siankoro * Ty Faramana is a bordertown near the border with Mali on the ''Route nationale'' N9, the Burkina Faso part of the trunk road from

Bobo-Dioulasso Bobo-Dioulasso is a city in Burkina Faso with a population of 904,920 (); it is the second-largest city in the country, after Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital. The name means "home of the Bobo-Dioula". The local Bobo-speaking population (re ...

Koutiala Koutiala ( Bambara: ߞߎߕߌߊߟߊ tr. Kutiala) is a city in Mali in the administrative region of Sikasso, and is located 140 km north of the city of Sikasso. Koutiala serves as the capital of its administrative Cercle, home to 575,253 peop ...

. The border police station in Faramana is 1.2 km from the actual border (from which it is another 3.8 km to its counterpart in Mali, the border police station at Sona ( Mahou rural commune,

Yorosso Cercle Yorosso Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Sikasso Region of southern Mali. The main town (''chef-lieu An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the cent ...

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Populated places in the Hauts-Bassins Region {{Houet-geo-stub