Administrative division and commune of Burkina Faso
Politics of Burkina Faso
Constitution (suspended)
Human rights
Government
Interim President
Ibrahim Traoré
Interim Prime Minister
Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla
Parliament
National Assembly
President: Alassane Bala Sakandé
Administrative divisions
13 regions
45 provinces
351 departments
Elections
Recent elections
General: 2015
2020
Political parties
Foreign relations
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Minister: Olivia Rouamba
Diplomatic missions of / in Burkina Faso
Nationality law
Passport
Visa requirements
Visa policy
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The provinces of Burkina Faso are divided into 351 departments (as of 2014 and since local elections of 2012), whose urbanized areas (cities, towns and villages) are grouped into the same commune (municipality) with the same name as the department. The department also covers rural areas (including national natural parks) that are not governed locally by the elected municipal council of the commune (presided by its mayor, with representants elected for each village or urban sector), but by the state represented at departmental level by a prefect (supervized by the haut-commissaire of its province, themself assisted by a general secretary and acting under the hierarchic authority the governor of its region, all of them being nominated by the national government).
The 351 departments (or communes) of Burkina Faso.
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