Administrative Subdivisions
For administrative purposes, the Gao Region is divided into four cercles:
| Cercle name | Area (km2) | Population Census 1998 |
Population Census 2009 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ansongo | 23,614 | 82,398 | 132,205 | |
| Bourem | 43,000 | 80,667 | 115,958 | |
| Gao | 31,250 | 143,300 | 239,853 | |
| Ménaka | 73,664 | 35,177 | 56,104 |
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