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Boucle du Mouhoun

First-level unit, Burkina Faso: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-BFA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO BFA / BFStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
2,059,956
people (GHSL 2025)
34,679 km²
area
8.4%
of Burkina Faso
6
units inside

01Imephu

Inside Boucle du Mouhoun

The 6 ADM2 units of Boucle du Mouhoun.

FIG 1 · 6 units inside Boucle du Mouhoun
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

Abantu · GHSL 2025

2,059,956

8.4% of Burkina Faso.

Abantu · WorldPop 2025

2,144,753

+4% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

34,679 km²

59 people per km².

Code

BF-01

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Boucle du Mouhoun in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2024-12-31

2,134,167

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Poverty headcount · 2021-12-31

73.6%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

04Units

6 units inside Boucle du Mouhoun

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Bale – 339,170 359,076 4,560.42 74 16.5% 0
Banwa – 392,298 393,133 5,927.11 66 19% 0
Kossi – 387,180 395,289 7,505.75 52 18.8% 0
Mouhoun – 441,684 439,755 6,905.58 64 21.4% 0
Nayala – 220,850 253,571 3,734.26 59 10.7% 0
Sourou – 278,773 303,929 6,046.2 46 13.5% 0
05Exposure

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
None at this resolution
Amachweba
None at this resolution
Izikhumulo zezindiza
None at this resolution
Major roads
673.8 H3 cells
Ojantshi
93.9 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
267.9 H3 cells
06Ubungozi

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Boucle du Mouhoun publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Burkina Faso.
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08Imithombo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BFA ADM1, source: World Bank, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2017
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BFA ADM2, source: World Bank, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2017
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BFA ADM3, source: New York University Spatial Data Repository, Stanford University, Map Maker Limited, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2007
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Amazwe
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.