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Koudougou is a town in the province of Boulkiemdé
Boulkiemdé

Boulkiemd? is one of the 45 Provinces of Burkina Faso of Burkina Faso and is in Centre-Ouest Region. The capital of Boulkiemd? is Koudougou. The population of Boulkiemd? was 498,008 in 2006....
, west of Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou

Ouagadougou is the Capital of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural and economic center of the nation. It is also the country's largest city, with a population of 1,475,223 National 2006 census final results ....
, the capital of Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso , also known by its short-form name Burkina, is a landlocked nation in West Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the south east, Togo and Ghana to the south, and C?te d'Ivoire to the south west....
. It is mainly inhabited by Mossi
Mossi

Mossi are a people in central Burkina Faso, living mostly in the villages of the Volta River Basin. The Mossi are the largest ethnic group in Burkina Faso, constituting 40% of the population, or about 6.2 million people.....
, and has 131.825 inhabitants, as of 2006. Koudougou is situated at the only railway line of the country and harbours some industries, like a factory for a soap factory
Factory

A factory or manufacturing plant is an industry building where workers manufacturing Good or supervise machines Process Manufacturing one product into another....
, shea
Shea

Butyrospermum parkii, Shea or Shea nut, is a tree indigenous to Africa, occurring in Mali, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, C?te d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Uganda....
 butter, a cotton
Cotton

Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows in a form known as a boll around the seeds of the cotton plant a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India and Africa....
 factory and various textile factories.

As of February 2007, an industrious town plaza based around a soccer field includes: a community center and cafeteria, a kindergarten and primary school, radio-television production and broadcasting installations for Tele-Yaka, a clothing recycling and manufacturing workshop, an experimental mango and green-leaf vegetable plantation, a metal forge for construction and maintenance of farming tools and implements, a metal waste-management and metal engineering workshop geared towards machine parts and motor components, an electronics repair shop and an open-air exhibition space for local sculptors.








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Koudougou is a town in the province of Boulkiemdé
Boulkiemdé

Boulkiemd? is one of the 45 Provinces of Burkina Faso of Burkina Faso and is in Centre-Ouest Region. The capital of Boulkiemd? is Koudougou. The population of Boulkiemd? was 498,008 in 2006....
, west of Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou

Ouagadougou is the Capital of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural and economic center of the nation. It is also the country's largest city, with a population of 1,475,223 National 2006 census final results ....
, the capital of Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso , also known by its short-form name Burkina, is a landlocked nation in West Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the south east, Togo and Ghana to the south, and C?te d'Ivoire to the south west....
. It is mainly inhabited by Mossi
Mossi

Mossi are a people in central Burkina Faso, living mostly in the villages of the Volta River Basin. The Mossi are the largest ethnic group in Burkina Faso, constituting 40% of the population, or about 6.2 million people.....
, and has 131.825 inhabitants, as of 2006. Koudougou is situated at the only railway line of the country and harbours some industries, like a factory for a soap factory
Factory

A factory or manufacturing plant is an industry building where workers manufacturing Good or supervise machines Process Manufacturing one product into another....
, shea
Shea

Butyrospermum parkii, Shea or Shea nut, is a tree indigenous to Africa, occurring in Mali, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, C?te d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Uganda....
 butter, a cotton
Cotton

Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows in a form known as a boll around the seeds of the cotton plant a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India and Africa....
 factory and various textile factories.

As of February 2007, an industrious town plaza based around a soccer field includes: a community center and cafeteria, a kindergarten and primary school, radio-television production and broadcasting installations for Tele-Yaka, a clothing recycling and manufacturing workshop, an experimental mango and green-leaf vegetable plantation, a metal forge for construction and maintenance of farming tools and implements, a metal waste-management and metal engineering workshop geared towards machine parts and motor components, an electronics repair shop and an open-air exhibition space for local sculptors.

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