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Samo, Northwestern, Samo Matya of Burkina Faso

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Map source: Burkina Faso Government

Population ^[2]	Language	Religion	% Christian	% Evangl	Online NT	Jesus Film	Progress
178,000	Samo, Matya	Ethnic Religions	20.00 %	8.70 %	Not available	Not available	3.2

Samo, Northwestern, Samo Matya of Burkina Faso

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Sourou Province, Mouna and Solenzo areas; Ouaga, Bobo, Dedougou, and Koudougou cities
(Source: Ethnologue 2010)

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Samo, Northwestern, Samo Matya

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Alternate People Names:

Don	Northern Samo
Sano	Southern Samo
Toma

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Population in Country:

178,000

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Ethnicity

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(178,000 Speakers)

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Primary Religion:

Buddhism	0.00 %
Christianity	20.00 %	(Evangelical: 8.70 %)
Ethnic Religions	50.00 %
Hinduism	0.00 %
Islam	30.00 %
Non-Religious	0.00 %
Other / Small	0.00 %
Unknown	0.00 %

Christianity Segments:

Anglican	0.00 %
Independent	2.00 %
Protestant	40.00 %
Orthodox	0.00 %
Other Christian	0.00 %
Roman Catholic	58.00 %

(Evangelicals distributed across Christianity segments)

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3.2

Level 5 Greater than or equal to 5% Evangelical

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None Reported

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None Reported

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