Sapelo, Burkina Faso

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Sapelo
CountryFlag of Burkina Faso.svg  Burkina Faso
Region Centre-Ouest Region
Province Boulkiemdé Province
Department Bingo Department
Population (2005)
  Total 462
Time zone GMT 0 (UTC+0)

Sapelo is a village in the Bingo Department of Boulkiemdé Province in central western Burkina Faso. It has a population of 462. [1]

Village Small clustered human settlement smaller than a town

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement.

Bingo Department Department in Boulkiemdé Province, Burkina Faso

Bingo is a department in the province of Boulkiemdé, west of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. As of 2005, it had a population of 16,541. Bingo is the capital of the department.

Boulkiemdé Province Province in Centre-Ouest Region, Burkina Faso

Boulkiemdé is one of the 45 provinces of Burkina Faso and is in Centre-Ouest Region. The capital of Boulkiemdé is Koudougou. The population of Boulkiemdé was 498,008 in 2006 and 567,680 in 2011.

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Coordinates: 12°20′N1°48′W / 12.333°N 1.800°W / 12.333; -1.800

Geographic coordinate system Coordinate system

A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are often chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position and two or three of the numbers represent a horizontal position; alternatively, a geographic position may be expressed in a combined three-dimensional Cartesian vector. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation. To specify a location on a plane requires a map projection.