Diéma is a rural commune

Communes of Mali

A Commune is the third level administrative unit in Mali. Mali is divided into eight regions and one capital district . These subdivisions bear the name of their principal city. The regions are divided into 49 Cercles...

 and small town in the Cercle of Diéma

Diema Cercle

Diéma Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Kayes Region of Mali. Its administrative center is the small town of Diéma. The Cercle is divided into one urban commune and fourteen rural communes...

 in the Kayes Region

Kayes Region

Kayes Region is one of eight first level national subdivisions, called Regions in Mali. It is the first administrative area of Mali and covers an area of 120,760 km²...

 of western Mali

Mali

Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...

. Diéma is also the administrative center (chef-lieu

Chef-lieu

A chef-lieu is a town or city that is pre-eminent, from an administrative perspective, in any given sub-division of territory in France and some French-speaking countries.-In Algeria:...

) of the Diéma Cercle

Diema Cercle

Diéma Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Kayes Region of Mali. Its administrative center is the small town of Diéma. The Cercle is divided into one urban commune and fourteen rural communes...

. As well as the main town, the commune contains the villages of Tinkaré, Kana, Guemou, Fangouné Bambara, Fangouné Kagoro, Fangouné Massassi, Dampa, Lacklal, Garambougou, Bougoudéré Niandé, Bougoudéré Mahomet, Bilibani, Mambourké, Madina-Maure and Nafadji. In the 2009 census the commune had a population of 30,592.