Dogofry, Ségou

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Dogofry
Commune and village
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Dogofry
Location in Mali
Coordinates: 14°46′50″N6°1′45″W / 14.78056°N 6.02917°W / 14.78056; -6.02917 Coordinates: 14°46′50″N6°1′45″W / 14.78056°N 6.02917°W / 14.78056; -6.02917
CountryFlag of Mali.svg  Mali
Region Ségou Region
Cercle Niono Cercle
Area [1]
 • Total 3,820 km2 (1,470 sq mi)
Elevation 273 m (896 ft)
Population (2009 census) [2]
 • Total 34,057
 • Density 8.9/km2 (23/sq mi)
Time zone GMT (UTC+0)

Dogofry is a village and a rural commune in the Cercle of Niona in the Ségou Region of southern-central Mali. The commune covers an area of approximately 3,820 square kilometers and is bordered to the north by the Republic of Mauritania, to the east by the commune of Nampalari, to the southeast by the commune of Diabaly, to the southwest by the commune of Sokolo and to the west by the commune of Guiré in the Cercle of Nara. It includes 19 villages, [3] and had a population of 34,057 in the 2009 census. [2] The south of the commune includes a region irrigated as part of the Office du Niger scheme. The village of Dogofry lies in this irrigated area, about 60 km north of Niono, to the west of the Fala de Molodo and the Distributeur de Kogoni.

Communes of Mali

A Commune is the third level administrative unit in Mali. Mali is divided into eight regions and one capital district (Bamako). These subdivisions bear the name of their principal city. The regions are divided into 49 Cercles. The Cercles and the district are divided into 703 Communes, with 36 Urban Communes and 667 Rural Communes, while some larger Cercles still contain Arrondissements above the Commune level, these are organisational areas with no independent power or office. Rural Communes are subdivided in Villages, while Urban Communes are subdivided into Quartier. Communes usually bear the name of their principal town. The capital, Bamako, consists of six Urban Communes. There were initially 701 communes until the Law No. 01-043 of 7 June 2001 created two new Rural Communes in the desert region in the north east of the country: Alata, Ménaka Cercle in the Gao Region and Intadjedite, Tin-Essako Cercle in the Kidal Region.

Niono Cercle Cercle in Ségou Region, Mali

Niono Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Ségou Region of Mali. The administrative center (chef-lieu) is the town of Niono.

Ségou Region Region in Mali

Ségou Region is an administrative region in Mali, situated in the centre of the country with an area of 64,821 km2. The region is bordered by Sikasso Region on the south, Tombouctou and Mopti on the east, Burkina Faso to the southeast and the Koulikoro Region to the west. In 2009 it had 2,336,255 inhabitants, making it the second most populous region of Mali. Its administrative capital is the town of Ségou.

The Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire document gives the administrative center of the commune ( chef-lieu ) as Banamba. [4] This is a larger village than Dogofry (or Dogofry Ba) that lies 4 km to the north. It has the coordinates 14°49′0″N6°1′5″W / 14.81667°N 6.01806°W / 14.81667; -6.01806 .

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References

  1. ↑ Common and Fundamental Operational Datasets Registry: Mali, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, archived from the original on 2012-01-06. commune_mali.zip (Originally from the Direction Nationale des Collectivités Territoriales, République du Mali)
  2. 1 2 Resultats Provisoires RGPH 2009 (Région de Ségou) (PDF) (in French), République de Mali: Institut National de la Statistique, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-22.
  3. ↑ Communes de la Région de Ségou (PDF) (in French), Ministère de l’administration territoriale et des collectivités locales, République du Mali, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-19.
  4. ↑ Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Rurale de Dogofry 2007-2011 (PDF) (in French), Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali, 2007.


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