Sinkolo

Sinkolo
Commune and village
Sinkolo Location in Mali
Coordinates: 12°5′15″N 5°33′0″W / 12.08750°N 5.55000°WCoordinates: 12°5′15″N 5°33′0″W / 12.08750°N 5.55000°W
Country	Mali
Region	Sikasso Region
Cercle	Koutiala Cercle
Area[1]
• Total	296 km^2 (114 sq mi)
Elevation	290 m (950 ft)
Population (2009)[2]
• Total	11,470
Time zone	GMT (UTC+0)

Sinkolo is a village and rural commune in the Cercle of Koutiala in the Sikasso Region of southern Mali. The commune covers an area of 296 square kilometers and includes 9 villages.^[3] In the 2009 census it had a population of 11,470.^[2] The village of Sinkolo, the administrative centre (chef-lieu) of the commune, is 35 km south-southwest of Koutiala.

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 RGPH 2009 (Région de Sikasso) (PDF) (in French), République de Mali: Institut National de la Statistique, archived from the original on 19 September 2012.
3. Communes de la Région de Sikasso (PDF) (in French), Ministère de l’administration territoriale et des collectivités locales, République du Mali, archived from the original on 19 September 2012.

External links

• Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Rurale de Sinkolo 2006-2008 (PDF) (in French), Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali, 2006.