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Baguindadougou

commune in Ségou Region, Mali

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ1765910
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Baguindadougou is a rural commune in the Cercle of Ségou in the Ségou Region of Mali. The commune includes 14 villages in an area of approximately 702 square kilometers. In the 2009 census it had a population was 10,371. The administrative center (chef-lieu) is the village of Markanibougou.

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External links

Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Rurale de Baguindadougou 2007-2011 (PDF) (in French), Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali, 2007, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-21, retrieved 2012-07-14.

Situation des points d'eau modernes au Mali en 2003: Baguindadougou (in French), Ministère des Mines, de l'Energie et de l'Eau, République du Mali, 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from Baguindadougou” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.