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 ruled locally at municipal level, but by the state at departmental level).

The 351 departments (or communes) of Burkina Faso.
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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 other administrative villages in their department; in these 49 urban communes, the main city or town is subdivided into urban sectors (within the two communes with special status, each urban sector of the capital city belong to only one arrondissement, which may also include other surrounding villages outside the capital city). These 49 urban communes include:
    • the capital town (or city) of each one of the 45 provinces (and of the 13 regions); among them, 2 urban communes have a particular status: the Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso departments, that are further subdivided into "arrondissements";
    • the commune of 4 additional departments, whose capitals are now large towns covering their respective urban areas (subdivided into urban sectors rather than former separate villages) : Bittou, Garango, Niangoloko and Pouytenga.
  • 302 rural communes are grouping all administrative villages in their department.[1][2] Their capitals are still considered officially as "villages", because they also cover a large rural area with dispersed population (with some exceptions expansion, notably around the largest cities of the country, whose urbanized agglomerations are expanding towards the rural area of their bordering departments and absorbing their villages; some of these departments may become urban communes as well, integrating their former villages into urban sectors of their reformed commune).

Departments (or communes) generally have the same name as their capital city or town, with a few exceptions (for historical reasons). For the local elections in 2012, communes were created in each department that still did not have one (village councils were kept but operate at advisory level under the supervision of their commune: each administrative village or urban sector elects at least 2 seats in the municipal council of their commune; for other elections at regional or national level, the smallest electoral circonscription is the whole department).

List of departments or communes by region and by province
Type of departments : (rur.) rural commune ; (urb.) urban commune ; (urb.p.s.) urban commune with particular status (subdivided in arrondissements).

Centre Region

Kadiogo Province
Departments of Kadiogo Province.

Plateau-Central Region

Ganzourgou Province
Departments of Ganzourgou Province.
Kourwéogo Province
Departments of Kourwéogo Province.
Oubritenga Province
Departments of Oubritenga Province.

Centre-Nord Region

Bam Province
Departments of Bam Province.
Namentenga Province
Departments of Namentenga Province.
Sanmatenga Province
Departments of Sanmatenga Province.

Nord Region

Loroum Province
Departments of Loroum Province.
Passoré Province
Departments of Passoré Province.
Yatenga Province
Departments of Yatenga Province.
Zondoma Province
Departments of Zondoma Province.

Sahel Region

Oudalan Province
Departments of Oudalan Province.
Séno Province
Departments of Séno Province.
Soum Province
Departments of Soum Province.
Yagha Province
Departments of Yagha Province.

Est Region

Gnagna Province
Departments of Gnagna Province.
Gourma Province
Departments of Gourma Province.
Komondjari Province
Departments of Komondjari Province.
Kompienga Province
Departments of Kompienga Province.
Tapoa Province
Departments of Tapoa Province.

Centre-Est Region

Boulgou Province
Departments of Boulgou Province.
Koulpélogo Province
Departments of Koulpélogo Province.
Kouritenga Province
Departments of Kouritenga Province.

Centre-Sud Region

Bazèga Province
Departments of Bazèga Province.
Nahouri Province
Departments of Nahouri Province.
Zoundwéogo Province
Departments of Zoundwéogo Province.

Centre-Ouest Region

Boulkiemdé Province
Departments of Boulkiemdé Province.
Sanguié Province
Departments of Sanguié Province.
Sissili Province
Departments of Sissili Province.
Ziro Province
Departments of Ziro Province.

Hauts-Bassins Region

Houet Province
Departments of Houet Province.
Kénédougou Province
Departments of Kénédougou Province.
Tuy Province
Departments of Tuy Province.

Boucle du Mouhoun Region

Balé Province
Departments of Balé Province.
Banwa Province
Departments of Banwa Province.
Kossi Province
Departments of Kossi Province.
Mouhoun Province
Departments of Mouhoun Province.
Nayala Province
Departments of Nayala Province.
Sourou Province
Departments of Sourou Province.

Cascades Region

Comoé Province
Departments of Comoé Province.
Léraba Province
Departments of Léraba Province.

Sud-Ouest Region

Bougouriba Province
Departments of Bougouriba Province.
Ioba Province
Departments of Ioba Province.
Noumbiel Province
Departments of Noumbiel Province.
Poni Province
Departments of Poni Province.

References
  1. (in French) Résultats préliminaires du RGPH 2006 Archived 2015-07-21 at the Wayback Machine, INSD.BF (non-consolidated figures of legal population by village or urban sector)
  2. (in French) Mémorandum sur la détermination du nombre de sièges des conseillers municipaux par village et par secteur dans le cadre des élections locales du 2 décembre 2012, CENI.BF (consolidated figures of legal population by village or urban sector, based on RGPH 2006, modified in 2012 including for newly created administrative villages).

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