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|name          = Socoura
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|subdivision_name1      = [[Mopti Region]]
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|population_as_of               =2009 census
|population_footnotes           =<ref name=pop2009>{{citation | url=http://instat.gov.ml/documentation/mopti.pdf
| publisher=République de Mali: Institut National de la Statistique| title=Resultats Provisoires RGPH 2009 (Région de Mopti) | language=French }}.</ref>
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''' Socoura ''' is a village and [[Communes of Mali|rural commune]] in the [[Mopti Cercle|Cercle of Mopti]] in the [[Mopti Region]] of [[Mali]]. The commune contains 28 small villages and in 2009 had a population of 42,553. The commune entirely surrounds the urban commune of [[Mopti]].
==References==
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==External links==
*{{citation | title=Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Rurale de Socoura 2006-2010 | publisher=Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali | year=2006 | url=http://www.aec.msu.edu/fs2/mali_fd_strtgy/plans/mopti/mopti/psa_socoura.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613235344/http://www.aec.msu.edu/fs2/mali_fd_strtgy/plans/mopti/mopti/psa_socoura.pdf | url-status=dead | archive-date=2010-06-13 | language=French }}.
{{Communes of the Mopti Region}}
[[Category:Communes of Mopti Region]]
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