Kofan

Kofan
Commune
Kofan

Location in Mali

Coordinates: 11°31′0″N 6°8′12″W / 11.51667°N 6.13667°W / 11.51667; -6.13667Coordinates: 11°31′0″N 6°8′12″W / 11.51667°N 6.13667°W / 11.51667; -6.13667
Country  Mali
Region Sikasso Region
Cercle Sikasso Cercle
Area[1]
  Total 283 km2 (109 sq mi)
Population (2009 censu)[2]
  Total 10,236
  Density 36/km2 (94/sq mi)
Time zone GMT (UTC+0)

Kofan is a rural commune in the Cercle of Sikasso in the Sikasso Region of southern Mali. The commune covers an area of 283 square kilometers and includes a small town and 7 villages.[3] In the 2009 census it had a population of 10,236.[2] The administrative center of the commune, the chef-lieu, is the small town of Kafana. The town is 68 km northwest of Sikasso.

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. 1 2 Resultats Provisoires RGPH 2009 (Région de Sikasso) (PDF) (in French), République de Mali: Institut National de la Statistique.
  3. Communes de la Région de Sikasso (PDF) (in French), Ministère de l’administration territoriale et des collectivités locales, République du Mali.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, September 09, 2012. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.