Moribabougou

Moribabougou
Commune and town
Moribabougou Location in Mali
Coordinates: 12°41′30″N 7°51′52″W / 12.69167°N 7.86444°WCoordinates: 12°41′30″N 7°51′52″W / 12.69167°N 7.86444°W
Country	Mali
Region	Koulikoro Region
Cercle	Kati Cercle
Area[1]
• Total	79 km^2 (31 sq mi)
Population (2009 census)[2]
• Total	28,574
• Density	360/km^2 (940/sq mi)
Time zone	GMT (UTC+0)

Moribabougou is a small town and rural commune in the Cercle of Kati in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali. It lies on the eastern outskirts of the greater Bamako area. In the 2009 census the commune had a population of 28,574.^[2]

History

Moribabougou hosted two pre-service trainings for Peace Corps/Mali volunteers, one in 1981 and the second in 1983. Don Lawder's 1997 Fishing in the Sky: The Education of Namory Keita was in part an account of his experience in the latter.

References

1. "Common and Fundamental Operational Datasets Registry: Mali", United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/country-region/mali Missing or empty |title= (help). (Originally from the Direction Nationale des Collectivités Territoriales, Mali) commune_mali.zip
2. Resultats Recensement Général de la Population et de l’Habitat 2009 (Région de Koulikoro) (PDF) (in French), République de Mali: Institut National de la Statistique.

External links

• Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Rurale de Moribabougou 2008-2012 (PDF) (in French), Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali, 2008.