Tougbo is a town in northeastern Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of Téhini Department in Bounkani Region, Zanzan District. It’s near the border of Burkina Faso.
Tougbo was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1,126 communes nationwide that were abolished."Le gouvernement ivoirien supprime 1126 communes, et maintient 197 pour renforcer sa politique de décentralisation en cours", news.abidjan.net, 7 March 2012.
In 2014, the population of the sub-prefecture of Tougbo was 14,693.
The settlement is home to a large refugee population displaced by the Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso.
Villages The thirty four villages of the sub-prefecture of Tougbo and their population in 2014 are:
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