Guiré

Commune and town in Koulikoro Region, Mali

14°38′30″N 6°41′30″W / 14.64167°N 6.69167°W / 14.64167; -6.69167Country

MaliRegionKoulikoro RegionCercleNara CercleArea

^[1]

• Total6,892 km² (2,661 sq mi)Population

(2009)^[2]

• Total19,879 • Density2.9/km² (7.5/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+0 (GMT)

Guiré is a small town and rural commune in the Cercle of Nara in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali. The commune covers an area of 6,892 square kilometers and extends to the Mauritanian border. It contains 25 villages^[3] and had a population of 19,879 in the 2009 census.^[2] The town of Guiré is 90 km southeast of Nara, the administrative centre (chef-lieu) of the cercle.

References

^ Common and Fundamental Operational Datasets Registry: Mali, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, archived from the original on 2012-12-14, retrieved 2012-08-31. commune_mali.zip (Originally from the Direction Nationale des Collectivités Territoriales, République du Mali)
^ ^a ^b Resultats Provisoires RGPH 2009 (Région de Koulikoro) (PDF) (in French), République de Mali: Institut National de la Statistique.
^ Communes de la Région de Koulikoro (PDF) (in French), Ministère de l’administration territoriale et des collectivités locales, République du Mali, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-09.

External links

Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Rurale de Guiré 2007-2011 (PDF) (in French), Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali, 2007, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-08-26, retrieved 2012-06-03.

Communes and towns of Koulikoro Region

Capital: Koulikoro

Banamba Cercle