Garango
Garango is a city located in Boulgou Province of Burkina Faso, founded by a great BISSA hunter-warrior called BARSO. The main ethnic group is the Bissa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bidiga and Gando.
Bidiga
Village
Bidiga is a village in the Tenkodogo Department of Boulgou Province in south-eastern Burkina Faso. As of 2005, the village has a population of 764. Bidiga is situated 3½ km east of Garango.
Gando
Village
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Gando is a village in Burkina Faso, in the Centre-Est Region, the Boulgou province and the Department of Tenkodogo. Gando has about 2500 residents. The village became famous in 2004, when the architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, originating from Gando and living in Germany, received the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the construction of the Gando primary school. Gando is situated 8 km northeast of Garango.
Garango
- Type: Town with 30,500 residents
- Description: city in Boulgou, Burkina Faso
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Boulgou, Centre-Est Region, Burkina Faso, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
11.805° or 11° 48′ 18″ northLongitude
-0.54888° or 0° 32′ 56″ westPopulation
30,500Elevation
304 metres (997 feet)Open location code
7C3XRF32+XCOpenStreetMap ID
node 902926043OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2360615Wikidata ID
Q2668534
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Garango” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Garango”
- Armenian: “Գարանգո”
- Asturian: “Garango”
- Catalan: “Garango”
- Cebuano: “Garango”
- Chinese: “Garango”
- Chinese: “加朗戈”
- Danish: “Garango”
- Dutch: “Garango”
- Finnish: “Garango”
- French: “Garango”
- German: “Garango”
- Irish: “Garango”
- Italian: “Garango”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Garango”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Garango”
- Portuguese: “Garango”
- Romanian: “Garango”
- Russian: “Гаранго”
- Sardinian: “Garango”
- Scots: “Garango”
- Spanish: “Garango”
- Swedish: “Garango”
- Turkish: “Garango”
- Ukrainian: “Гаранго”
- Welsh: “Garango”
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