Ouélessébougou is a town and rural commune in the Cercle of Kati in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali. The commune covers an area of approximately 1,118 square kilometers and includes the town of Ouélessébougou and 44 villages. In the 2009 census the commune had a population of 50,056. The town lies 80 km south of Bamako on the Route Nationale 7.
Ouélessébougou market in 1892
^"Common and Fundamental Operational Datasets Registry: Mali", Data: Humanitarian Data Exchange | HumanitarianResponse, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, archived from the original on 2012-12-14, retrieved 2012-07-08. commune_mali.zip (Originally from the Direction Nationale des Collectivités Territoriales, République du Mali)
^Communes de la Région de Koulikoro(PDF) (in French), Ministère de l’administration territoriale et des collectivités locales, République du Mali, archived from the original(PDF) on 2012-03-09.
