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Konna | |
|---|---|
Commune and town | |
  Konna Location in Mali | |
| Coordinates: 14°56′48″N 3°53′36″W / 14.94667°N 3.89333°W | |
| Country |  Mali |
| Region | Mopti Region |
| Cercle | Mopti Cercle |
| Area | |
| • Total | 838 km2 (324 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 268 m (879 ft) |
| Population (2009 census)[2] | |
| • Total | 36,767 |
| • Density | 44/km2 (110/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
Konna is a town and rural commune in the Cercle of Mopti in the Mopti Region of Mali. The town lies 60 km northeast of Mopti on the eastern edge of the flood plain of the Niger River. The main RN16 highway linking Sévaré and Gao branches to the east just to the south of the town. The commune has an area of approximately 838 km2 and contains the town and 24 of the surrounding villages.[3] In the 2009 census, it had a population of 36,767.[2]
A weekly market is held in the town on Thursdays that attracts many people from the surrounding settlements.[4]
Konna has mix of Fulbe, Fulbe-Rimaibe, and Marka peoples, and also some Dogon and Songhay people.[5]
- ^ Common and Fundamental Operational Datasets Registry: Mali, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, archived from the original on January 6, 2012. commune_mali.zip (Originally from the Direction Nationale des Collectivités Territoriales, République du Mali)
- ^ a b Resultats Provisoires RGPH 2009 (Région de Mopti) (PDF), République de Mali: Institut National de la Statistique, archived from the original (PDF) on July 27, 2012
- ^ Communes de la Région de Mopti (PDF) (in French), Ministère de l’administration territoriale et des collectivités locales, République du Mali, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-09.
- ^ Quensière, Jacques, ed. (1994), La pêche dans le delta central du Niger: approche pluridisciplinaire d'un système de production halieutique (PDF) (in French), Paris: ORSTOM, Karthala, p. 539 Carte VI, ISBN 2709912023.
- ^ Moran, Steven; Forkel, Robert; Heath, Jeffrey, eds. (2016). "Konna". dogonlanguages.org. Retrieved 2021-02-22.