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Gassam Department

department of Burkina Faso

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ1016769 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gassam is a department or commune of Nayala Province in western Burkina Faso. Its capital is the town of Gassam. According to the 2019 census the department has a total population of 44,132.

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“Gassam Department” enters the record as department of Burkina Faso. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gassam, Department and department can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gassam, Department and department.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1016769. Authority coordinates are 12.817, -3.200. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gassam Department” 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.