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'''Banwa''' is one of the 45 provinces of Burkina Faso and is in Boucle du Mouhoun Region. The capital of Banwa is Solenzo. In 2019 it had a population of 345,749.
==Education== In 2011 the province had 170 primary schools and 13 secondary schools.<ref>{{Cite web|title=La région du Boucle du Mouhoun en chiffres |year=2011 |publisher=Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie (INSD) |page=6 |url=http://www.insd.bf/fr/IMG/pdf/Boucle_Mouhoun_2011.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113145327/http://www.insd.bf/fr/IMG/pdf/Boucle_Mouhoun_2011.pdf |archivedate=2012-11-13 }}</ref>
==Healthcare== In 2011 the province had 23 health and social promotion centers (''Centres de santé et de promotion sociale''), 3 doctors and 87 nurses.<ref>{{Cite web|title=La région du Boucle du Mouhoun en chiffres |year=2011 |publisher=Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie (INSD) |page=6 |url=http://www.insd.bf/fr/IMG/pdf/Boucle_Mouhoun_2011.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113145327/http://www.insd.bf/fr/IMG/pdf/Boucle_Mouhoun_2011.pdf |archivedate=2012-11-13 }}</ref>
==Demographics== It is a rural province with 320,963 of its residents living in the countryside; only 24,786 live in urban areas. There are 169,195 men living in Banwa Province and 176,554 women.<ref name=pop/>
==Departments== Banwa is divided into 6 departments:
{| class="wikitable" |- |+ The Departments of Banwa |- ! Departments ! Capitals ! Population <br />(Census 2019) |- | Balavé Department||Balavé || 24,103 |- | Kouka Department||Kouka || 73,747 |- | Sami Department || Sami || 13,596 |- | Sanaba Department||Sanaba || 38,037 |- | Solenzo Department||Solenzo || 158,763 |- | Tansila Department||Tansila || 38,743 |- |}
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==See also== *Regions of Burkina Faso *Provinces of Burkina Faso *Communes of Burkina Faso
== References ==
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