Guiré

Guiré
Commune and town
Guiré Location in Mali
Coordinates: 14°38′30″N 6°41′30″W / 14.64167°N 6.69167°WCoordinates: 14°38′30″N 6°41′30″W / 14.64167°N 6.69167°W
Country	Mali
Region	Koulikoro Region
Cercle	Nara Cercle
Area[1]
• Total	6,892 km^2 (2,661 sq mi)
Population (2009)[2]
• Total	19,879
• Density	2.9/km^2 (7.5/sq mi)
Time zone	GMT (UTC+0)

Guiré is a small town and rural commune in the Cercle of Nara in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali. The commune covers an area of 6,892 square kilometers and extends to the Mauritanian border. It contains 25 villages^[3] and had a population of 19,879 in the 2009 census.^[2] The town of Guiré is 90 km southeast of Nara, the administrative centre (chef-lieu) of the cercle.

References

1. "Common and Fundamental Operational Datasets Registry: Mali", United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/country-region/mali Missing or empty |title= (help). commune_mali.zip (Originally from the Direction Nationale des Collectivités Territoriales, République du Mali)
2. Resultats Provisoires RGPH 2009 (Région de Koulikoro) (PDF) (in French), République de Mali: Institut National de la Statistique.
3. Communes de la Région de Koulikoro (PDF) (in French), Ministère de l’administration territoriale et des collectivités locales, République du Mali.

External links

• Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Rurale de Guiré 2007-2011 (PDF) (in French), Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali, 2007.