Login
Login

Departments of Burkina Faso

{{Short description|Administrative division and commune of Burkina Faso}}

{{Politics 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).

{{TOC left}}

File:Burkina Faso departments.png

{{Clear}}

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 belongs 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.{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.insd.bf/Documents/Publications/INSD/Publications/Resultats_enquetes/Autres%20enq/Rapport_preliminaire_RGPH06.pdf Résultats préliminaires du RGPH 2006] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721185435/http://www.insd.bf/Documents/Publications/INSD/Publications/Resultats_enquetes/Autres%20enq/Rapport_preliminaire_RGPH06.pdf |date=2015-07-21 }}, INSD.BF (non-consolidated figures of legal population by village or urban sector){{in lang|fr}} [http://www.ceni.bf/sites/default/files/elections/repartition-sieges-conseilles-municipaux-02-2012.pdf 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). 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 circumscription is the whole department).

{{Departments of Burkina Faso|state=expanded}}

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).

{{div col|colwidth=30em|rules=yes}}

= [[Centre Region (Burkina Faso)|Centre Region]] =

; Kadiogo Province

File:Kadiogo departments.png

{{Clear}}

= [[Plateau-Central Region]] =

; Ganzourgou Province

File:Ganzourgou departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Kourwéogo Province

File:Kourweogo departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Oubritenga Province

File:Oubritenga departments.png

{{Clear}}

= [[Centre-Nord Region]] =

; Bam Province

File:Bam departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Namentenga Province

File:Namentenga departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Sanmatenga Province

File:Sanmatenga departments.png

{{Clear}}

= [[Nord Region (Burkina Faso)|Nord Region]] =

; Loroum Province

File:Loroum departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Passoré Province

File:Passore departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Yatenga Province

File:Yatenga departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Zondoma Province

File:Zondoma departments.png

{{Clear}}

= [[Sahel Region]] =

; Oudalan Province

File:Oudalan departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Séno Province

File:Seno departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Soum Province

File:Soum departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Yagha Province

File:Yagha department.png

{{Clear}}

= [[Est Region (Burkina Faso)|Est Region]] =

; Gnagna Province

File:Gnagna departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Gourma Province

File:Gourma departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Komondjari Province

File:Komondjari department.png

{{Clear}}

; Kompienga Province

File:Kompienga department.png

{{Clear}}

; Tapoa Province

File:Tapoa departments.png

{{Clear}}

= [[Centre-Est Region]] =

; Boulgou Province

File:Boulgou departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Koulpélogo Province

File:Koulpelogo departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Kouritenga Province

File:Kouritenga departments.png

{{Clear}}

= [[Centre-Sud Region]] =

; Bazèga Province

File:Bazega departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Nahouri Province

File:Nahouri departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Zoundwéogo Province

File:Zoundweogo departments.png

{{Clear}}

= [[Centre-Ouest Region]] =

; Boulkiemdé Province

File:Boulkiemde departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Sanguié Province

File:Sanguie departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Sissili Province

File:Sissili departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Ziro Province

File:Ziro departments.png

{{Clear}}

= [[Hauts-Bassins Region]] =

; Houet Province

File:Houet departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Kénédougou Province

File:Kenedougou departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Tuy Province

File:Tuy departments.png

{{Clear}}

= [[Boucle du Mouhoun Region]] =

; Balé Province

File:Bale departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Banwa Province

File:Banwa departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Kossi Province

File:Kossi departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Mouhoun Province

File:Mouhoun departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Nayala Province

File:Nayala departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Sourou Province

File:Sourou departments.png

{{Clear}}

= [[Cascades Region]] =

; Comoé Province

File:Comoe departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Léraba Province

File:Leraba departments.png

{{Clear}}

= [[Sud-Ouest Region (Burkina Faso)|Sud-Ouest Region]] =

; Bougouriba Province

File:Bougouriba departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Ioba Province

File:Ioba departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Noumbiel Province

File:Noumbiel departments.png

{{Clear}}

; Poni Province

File:Poni departments.png

{{Clear}}

{{div col end}}

References

{{Reflist}}

See also

{{Burkina Faso topics}}

{{Articles on third-level administrative divisions of countries}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Departments Of Burkina Faso}}

Category:Burkina Faso geography-related lists

Category:Subdivisions of Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso, Departments

Burkina Faso 3

Departments, Burkina Faso