Kouoro | |
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Commune and town | |
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  Kouoro Location in Mali | |
| Coordinates: 11°58′5″N 5°41′19″W / 11.96806°N 5.68861°W | |
| Country |  Mali |
| Region | Sikasso Region |
| Cercle | Sikasso Cercle |
| Area | |
• Total | 472 km2 (182 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 300 m (1,000 ft) |
| Population (2023 census)[2] | |
• Total | 23,169 |
| • Density | 49/km2 (130/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
Kouoro is a small town and rural commune in the Cercle of Kléla in the Sikasso Region of southern Mali. The commune covers an area of 472 square kilometers and includes the town and five villages.[3] In the 2023 census it had a population of 23169.[2] The town of Kouoro, the chef-lieu of the commune, is 80 km north of Sikasso, just off of the RN11, the main road linking Sikasso and Koutiala. It is also about 30 km west of the border with Burkina Faso.
- ^ Common and Fundamental Operational Datasets Registry: Mali, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, archived from the original on January 6, 2012. commune_mali.zip (Originally from the Direction Nationale des Collectivités Territoriales, République du Mali)
- ^ a b Resultats Provisoires RGPH 2023 (Région de Sikasso) (PDF) (in French), République de Mali: Institut National de la Statistique, archived from the original (PDF) on July 27, 2012.
- ^ Communes de la Région de Sikasso (PDF) (in French), Ministère de l’administration territoriale et des collectivités locales, République du Mali, archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-03.