West Africa
Burkina Faso
Centre-Est Region

Gando

Gando is a village in , in the , the Boulgou province and the Department of . 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.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: village in Burkina Faso
  • Also known as: “Gando, Burkina Faso”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bidiga and Garango.

Village
is a village in the Tenkodogo Department of in south-eastern . As of 2005, the village has a population of 764. is situated 6 km southwest of Gando.

Town
is a city located in of . The main ethnic group is the Bissa. The population as of 2019 is 40,404. is situated 8 km southwest of Gando.

Gando

Latitude
11.84833° or 11° 50′ 54″ north
Longitude
-0.49058° or 0° 29′ 26″ west
Open location code
7C3XRGX5+8Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5150099897
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Wiki­data ID
Q1493387
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“Gando” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Gando”
  • Chinese: “Gando”
  • Dutch: “Gando, Burkina Faso”
  • French: “Gando”
  • German: “Gando”
  • Italian: “Gando”
  • Japanese: “ガンドー”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gando”
  • Portuguese: “Gando”
  • Swedish: “Gando, Burkina Faso”
  • Swedish: “Gando”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gando”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.