Botou Department

Botou is a

department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

or commune of Tapoa Province in eastern

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 ...

. Its capital is the town of

Botou Botou () is a county-level city in Hebei province, People's Republic of China, under the jurisdiction of Cangzhou prefecture-level city. Administrative Divisions Subdistricts: Jiefang Subdistrict (), Hedong Subdistrict (), Gulou Subdistrict ...

. The department constitutes a

panhandle A salient (also known as a panhandle or bootheel) is an elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state. While similar to a peninsula in shape, a salient is most often not surrounded by water on ...

that stretches into

Niger ) , official_languages = , languages_type = National languagesDepartments of Burkina Faso Tapoa Province {{Tapoa-geo-stub