Baguindadougou
commune in Ségou Region, Mali

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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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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