Bélédougou) is an historic region of the pre-colonial Bambara Empire in today's central Mali.
In the Bambara language the name literally means "County of the gravel".
A dry land on the interface of the Sahel and the wetter Sudan, it was populated by a loose confederation Bambara farming communities.
Much of pre-colonial Beledougou remained staunchly animist after the fall of the Bambara Empire.
In 1915, it was the scene of a major revolt against French forced conscription, in a rising led by Koumi Diosse Traore.