Place:Balé, Boucle du Mouhoun, Burkina Faso

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NameBalé
Alt namesBalesource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Bale provincesource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Les Balesource: Embassy, Burkina Faso (1999) accessed 04/01/99
TypeProvince
Located inBoucle du Mouhoun, Burkina Faso
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Boromo
Nabou
Pâ
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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Balé is one of the 45 provinces of Burkina Faso, located in its Boucle du Mouhoun Region with Boromo as capital. Its area is , and had a population of 297,367 in 2019. The province is known for its Deux Balé Forest, populated by savannah elephant herds. Boromo, the provincial capital, is located on the main road from Ouagadougou to Bobo-Dioulasso. In June 2007, the Canadian mining company, Semafo, open the third gold mine in the country in Mana in the province, with an investment of about $116 million.

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