WikiProject Burkina Faso/subdivisions

Given that this subproject involves people speaking various languages from various countries (France, Germany, Italy, Russia...) this subpage is currently maintained only in English instead of the official French language spoken in Burkina Faso.

Most of its content however are in data tables showing the progress of mapping of subdivisions, and the toponyms shown in tables below should all be listed in French, to facilitate its understanding by French-speaking people of Burkina-Faso that will want to contribute to this effort. Most translation efforts of toponyms will be in the OSM database itself.

Administrative subdivisions of Bukina Faso

• All Wikipedia links for locations in Burkina Faso should point to its French edition (other languages of Wikipedia are maintained now in Wikidata). Please complete these pages as much as possible (create draft pages if needed, check their content, document the alternate names, check at least the latest population figures ; some templates like w:fr:Modèle:Infobox Subdivision du Burkina Faso are already ready to facilitate their creation and Wikipedia categories are also being sorted in a separate effort). You're also invited to subscribe to its Wikiproject.
• But do not import any information from Wikipedia in the OSM database (unless you are the same author of these data on Wikipedia, or you use the same open data source), as its CC-BY-SA licence is not compatible with the ODbL! Notably, do not import population figures (frequently wrong, roughyl rounded or estimated, unsourced, not dated, or simply outdated) or the coordinates of nodes from Wikipedia.
• However the reverse import from OSM to Wikipedia is possible: articles should be edited to reflect updates.
• All régions (admin_level=4) are complete (but their borders are often very fuzzy).
• The borders of departments/municipalities (admin_level=6) may be difficult to determine exactly, even where they are known to group several villages (possibly admin_level=8).
• All ISO 3166-2 codes (defined in Burkina Faso only for régions and provinces) have already been imported in distinctive tags. But the preferred reference identifiers should be defined on all subdivisions, and will use the tag "ref:INSD=*", whose value will help matching the offical data published by INSD (defining the official national nomenclature), Afristat, the United Nations, or other international organisations (like the World Bank), which need a more precise codification than ISO 3166-2.

National borders (admin_level=2)

ISO 3166-1	Name (fr)	Relation (admin_level=2)	Capital city	Completion
BF	Burkina Faso	192783 192783	Ouagadougou Ouagadougou	OK

Régions (admin_level=4)

The content of this section is transcluded from the /regions subpage.

ISO 3166-2	INSD code	Name (fr)	Relation (admin_level=4)	Capital city	Completion
BF-01	02	Boucle du Mouhoun	2674448 2674448	Dédougou Dédougou	OK
BF-02	12	Cascades	2745987 2745987	Banfora Banfora	OK
BF-03	11	Centre	2746031 2746031	Ouagadougou Ouagadougou	OK
BF-04	10	Centre-Est	2746016 2746016	Tenkodogo Tenkodogo	OK
BF-05	06	Centre-Nord	2746040 2746040	Kaya Kaya	OK
BF-06	07	Centre-Ouest	2813987 2813987	Koudougou Koudougou	OK
BF-07	13	Centre-Sud	2746024 2746024	Manga Manga	OK
BF-08	04	Est	1143562 1143562	Fada N’Gourma Fada N’Gourma	OK
BF-09	01	Hauts-Bassins	2674447 2674447	Bobo-Dioulasso Bobo-Dioulasso	OK
BF-10	09	Nord	1159881 1159881	Ouahigouya Ouahigouya	OK
BF-11	08	Plateau-Central	2746035 2746035	Ziniaré Ziniaré	OK
BF-12	03	Sahel	1159873 1159873	Dori Dori	OK
BF-13	05	Sud-Ouest	2745992 2745992	Gaoua Gaoua	OK

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Provinces (admin_level=5)

The content of this section is transcluded from the /provinces subpage.

Notes:

• The names of capitals of provinces that are also capitals of regions (above) are displayed with bold characters.
• Some provinces or their capital cities have several orthographies, the Capital city column shows the one currently used by INSD.bf, the other ones is in the Alternate name(s) column (and have been used by INSD.bf in older reports; they may still be used).
• The existing boundary relations are now all defined the node with the admin_center role for the place of the capital city (chef-lieu in French), but with their borders defined with limited resolution (within 1 km). These borders need further adjustments by checking all the villages they should include. This requires first subdiviing them in their departments and listing all their missing villages. Then some borders can be more acurately defined by locating the rivers or some other physical features that traditionally separate them. However most villages can be correctly found now in the correct province and trhis already helps disambiguating them as there are lots of homonyms. For further disambiguation we will still need to define the border of their departments.

ISO 3166-2	INSD code	Name (fr)	Relation (admin_level=5)	Capital city	In region	Alternate name(s)	Completion
BF-BAL	31	Balé	2828093 2828093	Boromo Boromo	BF-01		OK
BF-BAN	32	Banwa	2828094 2828094	Solenzo Solenzo	BF-01		OK
BF-KOS	13	Kossi	2828096 2828096	Nouna Nouna	BF-01		OK
BF-MOU	15	Mouhoun	2828097 2828097	Dédougou Dédougou	BF-01		OK
BF-NAY	40	Nayala	2828098 2828098	Toma Toma	BF-01		OK
BF-SOR	27	Sourou	2828099 2828099	Tougan Tougan	BF-01		OK
BF-COM	06	Comoé	2828137 2828137	Banfora Banfora	BF-02		OK
BF-LER	38	Léraba	2828138 2828138	Sindou Sindou	BF-02		OK
BF-KAD	11	Kadiogo	2828095 2828095	Ouagadougou Ouagadougou	BF-03		OK
BF-BLG	04	Boulgou	2828160 2828160	Tenkodogo Tenkodogo	BF-04		OK
BF-KOP	36	Koulpélogo	2828161 2828161	Ouargaye Ouargaye	BF-04		OK
BF-KOT	14	Kouritenga	2828162 2828162	Koupéla Koupéla	BF-04		OK
BF-BAM	01	Bam	2828631 2828631	Kongoussi Kongoussi	BF-05		OK
BF-NAM	17	Namentenga	2828632 2828632	Boulsa Boulsa	BF-05		OK
BF-SMT	23	Sanmatenga	2828633 2828633	Kaya Kaya	BF-05		OK
BF-BLK	05	Boulkiemdé	2828693 2828693	Koudougou Koudougou	BF-06		OK
BF-SNG	22	Sanguié	2828694 2828694	Réo Réo	BF-06		OK
BF-SIS	25	Sissili	2828695 2828695	Léo Léo	BF-06		OK
BF-ZIR	44	Ziro	2828696 2828696	Sapouy Sapouy	BF-06		OK
BF-BAZ	02	Bazèga	2868361 2868361	Kombissiri Kombissiri	BF-07		OK
BF-NAO	16	Nahouri	2868362 2868362	Pô Pô	BF-07		OK
BF-ZOU	30	Zoundwéogo	2868363 2868363	Manga Manga	BF-07		OK
BF-GNA	08	Gnagna	2914764 2914764	Bogandé Bogandé	BF-08		OK
BF-GOU	09	Gourma	2914765 2914765	Fada N’Gourma Fada N’Gourma	BF-08		OK
BF-KMD	34	Komondjari	2914766 2914766	Gayéri Gayéri	BF-08	Komandjoari	OK
BF-KMP	35	Kompienga	2914767 2914767	Pama Pama	BF-08		OK
BF-TAP	28	Tapoa	2914768 2914768	Diapaga Diapaga	BF-08		OK
BF-HOU	10	Houet	2914808 2914808	Bobo-Dioulasso Bobo-Dioulasso	BF-09		OK
BF-KEN	12	Kénédougou	2914809 2914809	Orodara Orodara	BF-09		OK
BF-TUI	42	Tuy	2914810 2914810	Houndé Houndé	BF-09	Tui	OK
BF-LOR	39	Loroum	2915653 2915653	Titao Titao	BF-10		OK
BF-PAS	20	Passoré	2915654 2915654	Yako Yako	BF-10		OK
BF-YAT	29	Yatenga	2915655 2915655	Ouahigouya Ouahigouya	BF-10		OK
BF-ZON	45	Zondoma	2915656 2915656	Gourcy Gourcy	BF-10	Zandoma	OK
BF-GAN	07	Ganzourgou	2916023 2916023	Zorgho Zorgho	BF-11		OK
BF-KOW	37	Kourwéogo	2916024 2916024	Boussé Boussé	BF-11		OK
BF-OUB	18	Oubritenga	2916025 2916025	Ziniaré Ziniaré	BF-11		OK
BF-OUD	19	Oudalan	2916144 2916144	Gorom-Gorom Gorom-Gorom	BF-12		OK
BF-SEN	24	Séno	2916146 2916146	Dori Dori	BF-12		OK
BF-SOM	26	Soum	2916145 2916145	Djibo Djibo	BF-12		OK
BF-YAG	43	Yagha	2916147 2916147	Sebba Sebba	BF-12	Sébba ; Seba	OK
BF-BGR	03	Bougouriba	2916226 2916226	Diébougou Diébougou	BF-13		OK
BF-IOB	33	Ioba	2916227 2916227	Dano Dano	BF-13		OK
BF-NOU	41	Noumbiel	2916228 2916228	Batié Batié	BF-13		OK
BF-PON	21	Poni	2916229 2916229	Gaoua Gaoua	BF-13		OK

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Départements / communes (admin_level=6)

Because of its size, most of this section can no longer included here, it is located in the /communes subpage. Within the 351 "départements" in Burkina Faso (in 2012):

• 2 are "communes urbaines à statut particulier" (subdivided into "arrondissements" grouping unnamed numbered urban sectors and named villages).
• 49 are "communes urbaines" (subdivided into unnamed numbered urban sectors and named villages)
• 302 are "communes rurales" (subdivided into villages)

However these 351 "communes" (municipalities) only cover the urbanized area (cities and villages) of their (homonymous) department. The rest of the department is managed by the state. We should delimit these urbanized areas. For this reason, the boundaries of departments are indicative and only made to surround and separate villages in relevant groups. We should however delimit precisely all urban sectors.

TODO: In May 2016, new municipal election took places and new communes were added by splitting some of them to reach a total of 363 communes.

Arrondissements (urban districts, admin_level=7)

• TODO: map them as in OSM as "districts" in the urban municipalities (communes urbaines, which are départements) of the cities of Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso (which are mapped in OSM both as "cities" and officially as départements)
• The other urban municipalites (even if some of them qualify as cities in OSM) and all other rural municipalites (communes rurales, which are départements) are not subdivided in arrondissements.
• Note that arrondissements are splitting the main city of the department in several parts, but they may also contain (in Bobo-Dioulasso) other surrounding villages that are not part of the main city. Technically, these arrondissements (in the department of Bobo-Dioulasso) are not subdivisions of the city, but subdivisions of the department, and the main city is not a subdivision of the department or arrondissement but the group of all urban sectors in all arrondissements of the department.

Cities, towns and administrative villages (admin_level=8)

A commune is grouping all cities, towns and/or villages in the department of the same name, but do not cover the full territory of the department. Their urban extension in the department is controled by the local representant of the national state in the department. The rest of the department is often a very large rural area where villages and towns are enclaved.

Basically, if we define the borders of localities (cities, towns, villages and hamlets), they must be limited to the urbanized area and tagged with admin_level=8, and named according to the locality. These areas may be also tagged with landuse=residential if they cover these urbanized areas. Each area will have a place=* node giving the name of the locality.

Note that even in departments that are urban municipalities, there are some rural areas and villages in those rural area. But national statistics frequently do not distinguish each village in the rural areas surrounding towns and cities, except in data related to municipal elections or to traditional village developement councils. In the best case, data is only available per department (commune) or per arrondissement.

So most villages won't have borders in OSM, unless there's local data on their precise extension. Most of them will be mapped only as nodes within their department/commune.

About 8,400 villages are counted by the INSD : they could be mapped only as nodes (notably in rural municipalities, or for small kernels of population around cities and towns); but they are not subdivided : these administrative villages should still be mapped in OSM (with their borders if possible) with admin_level 8. All of them should map to a "place=village" in OSM (population between 100 and 3,000 inhabitants).

But very small villages which are not administrative villages should be mapped with "place=hamlet", most often as nodes only (no border defined officially, but this could be landuse=redidential polygons), and "isolated dwellings" in OSM should only be mapped as nodes (or only on a single building polygon). They should not have any "admin_level" defined on them. There's no official population statistics on them as they are counted as part of adminsitrative villages. When former villages are now part of urban sectors (in urban municipalities), they are not administrative villages and should not be mapped as "place=village" but may be mapped as "suburbs".

Urban sectors (admin_level=9)

This includes sectors (secteurs in French for the INSD) which are splitting the main city or town of each urban municipality, for which the INSD provides specific census data. The threshold of population for defining them (only in urban municipalities) is above 1,000 inhabitants per sector: most of them would still not qualify as "place=town" in OSM, but only as "place=suburb" as their population is in the range between about 3,000 and 10,000 inhabitants in cities, or between 1,000 and 5,000 inhabitants in towns, and because these urban "sectors" are officially distinguished from rural "villages".