Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso, formerly Upper Volta, is a landlocked country in West Africa. Burkina Faso is one of the friendliest - and until the late 2010s, one of the safest - countries in all of Africa.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Ouagadougou
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Ouagadougou is the capital of Burkina Faso and the nation's cultural and economic centre.
Bobo-Dioulasso
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With a population of more than half a million, Bobo-Dioulasso is the second largest city in Burkina Faso, and is a major center of culture and music.
Banfora
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Banfora is a city in southwestern Burkina Faso, with a population of 117,452 making it the sixth most populous city in Burkina Faso.
Destinations
Black Volta Region
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The Black Volta Region of Burkina Faso is in the southwest of the country.
North Burkina Faso
North Burkina Faso is the Sahelian region of Burkina Faso, along the border of Mali and Niger.East Burkina Faso
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East Burkina Faso the arid, easternmost part of Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso
- Type: Country with 16,800,000 residents
- Description: sovereign state in Africa
- Languages: French and Mossi
- Neighbors: Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Togo
- Categories: sovereign state, landlocked country and locality
- Location: West Africa, Africa
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Latitude of centre
12.576° or 12° 34' 34" northLongitude of centre
-1.604° or 1° 36' 14" westPopulation
16,800,000Area
274,200 km² (105,869 miles²)Elevation
313 metres (1,027 feet)Capital
OuagadougouCurrency
Franc (XOF)Phone code
.bfInternet domain
226OpenStreetMap ID
node 249399288OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
2361809Wikidata ID
Q965Burkina Faso Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Burkina Faso
- Abkhazian: Буркина-Фасо
- Achinese: Burkina Faso
- Adyghe: Буркина-Фасо
- Afar: Burkina-Faso
- Afrikaans: Boerkina Fasso
- Afrikaans: Burkina Faso
- Akan: Burkina Faso
- Akan: Bɔkina Faso
- Albanian: Burkina-Faso
- Albanian: Burkina Faso
- Amharic: Burkina faso
- Amharic: ቡርኪና ፋሶ
- Amis: Burkina faso
- Angika: बर्कीना फासो
- Arabic: Burkina Faso
- Arabic: بركينا فاسو
- Arabic: بوركينا فاسو
- Arabic: بوركينافاسو
- Arabic: بوركينا فاصو
- Arabic: بوركينافاصو
- Arabic: بوركينفاسو
- Arabic: بوركينياني
- Arabic: بوركینا فاسو
- Arabic: بورکینا فاسو
- Arabic: فولطا العليا
- Arabic: قائمة جزر بوركينا فاسو
- Aragonese: Burkina Faso
- Armenian: Բուրկինա Ֆասո
- Arpitan: Burkina Fasô
- Assamese: বুৰকিনা ফাচো
- Asturian: Burkina Fasu
- Atayal: Burkina faso
- Avaric: Burkina
- Avaric: Буркина-Фасо
- Awadhi: बुर्कीना फासो
- Azerbaijani: Burkina-Faso
- Azerbaijani: Burkina Faso
- Balinese: Burkina Faso
- Bambara: Burkina Faso
- Bambara: Burukina Faso
- Banjar: Burkina Paso
- Bashkir: Буркина-Фасо
- Basque: Burkina Faso
- Bavarian: Burkina Faso
- Belarusian: Буркіна-Фасо
- Bengali: বুরকিনা ফাসো
- Bengali: বুর্কিনা ফাসো
- Bhojpuri: बुर्किना फासो
- Bishnupriya: বুর্কিনা ফাসো
- Bislama: Bukina Faso
- Bosnian: Burkina Faso
- Breton: Burkina Faso
- Bulgarian: Буркина Фасо
- Burmese: ဘာကီးနား ဖားဆို
- Burmese: ဘာကီးနားဖားဆိုနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Burkina Faso
- Cebuano: Burkina Faso
- Central Bikol: Burkina Faso
- Central Kurdish: بورکینافاسۆ
- Central Kurdish: بورکینا فاسۆ
- Chavacano: Burkina Faso
- Chechen: Буркина-Фасо
- Chechen: Буркина- Фасо
- Chechen: Буркина Фасо
- Cherokee: ᏋᎩᎾ ᏩᏐ
- Chinese: Burkina Faso
- Chinese: 布吉納法索
- Chinese: 布基納法索
- Chinese: 布基纳法索 / 布吉納法索
- Chinese: 布基纳法索
- Chuvash: Буркина Фасо
- Cornish: Burkina Faso
- Corsican: Burkina Faso
- Crimean Tatar: Burkina Faso
- Croatian: Burkina Faso
- Czech: Burkina Faso
- Dagbani: Burkina Faso
- Danish: Burkina Faso
- Dhivehi: ބުރުކީނާ ފާސޯ
- Dimli (individual language): Burkina Faso
- Dotyali: बुर्किना फासो
- Dutch: BF
- Dutch: BFA
- Dutch: Burkina Faso
- Dzongkha: བྷར་ཀི་ན་ ཕེ་སོ
- Eastern Mari: Буркина Фасо
- Egyptian Arabic: بوركينا فاسو
- English: Republic of Burkina Faso
- English: Republic of Upper Volta (-1984)
- English: bf
- Esperanto: BF
- Esperanto: Burkino
- Estonian: Burkina Faso
- Ewe: Burkina Faso
- Ewe: Burkina Faso nutome
- Extremaduran: Burquina Fasu
- Farefare: Burkina Faso
- Faroese: Burkina Faso
- Fiji Hindi: Burkina Faso
- Finnish: Burkina Faso
- Fon: Bukinato
- Fon: Bukinatò
- French: BF
- French: Burk. F.
- French: Burk. Faso
- French: Burkina
- French: Burkina Faso
- French: Pays des Hommes intègres
- French: bf
- French: le Burkina Faso
- Fulah: Burkibaa Faaso
- Fulah: Burkina Faso
- Gagauz: Burkina Faso
- Galician: Burkina Faso
- Galician: Burquina Faso
- Ganda: Burkina Faso
- Ganda: Burukina Faso
- Georgian: ბურკინა-ფასო
- Georgian: ბურკინა ფასო
- German: Burkina Faso
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Burkina Faso
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Republic of Burkina Faso
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Republic of Upper Volta (-1984)
- Greek: Μπουρκίνα Φάσο
- Guarani: Vukína Fáso
- Guarani: Vurukína Fáso
- Guianese Creole French: Birkina Faso
- Gujarati: બુર્કિના ફાસો
- Haitian: Boukinafaso
- Hakka Chinese: Burkina Faso
- Hausa: Burakina Faso
- Hausa: Burkina Faso
- Hausa: Burkina faso
- Hawaiian: Burakina Faso
- Hebrew: בורקינה פאסו
- Hindi: बर्किना फासो
- Hindi: बुर्किना फ़ासो
- Hindi: बुर्किना फासो
- Hungarian: Burkina
- Hungarian: Burkina Faso
- Hungarian: Felső-Volta
- Icelandic: Burkína Fasó
- Icelandic: Búrkína Fasó
- Ido: Burkina Faso
- Igbo: Burkina Faso
- Iloko: Burkina Faso
- Inari Sami: Burkina Faso
- Indonesian: Burkina Faso
- Interlingua: Burkina Faso
- Interlingue: Burkina Faso
- Irish: Buircíne Fasó
- Italian: Alto Volta
- Italian: Burkina Faso
- Jamaican Creole English: Boerkiina Faso
- Japanese: ブルキナファソ
- Japanese: ブルキナ共和国
- Javanese: Burkina Faso
- Kabiyè: Purkina Fasoo
- Kabyle: Burkina Faso
- Kalaallisut: Burkina Faso
- Kalmyk: Буркинапасин Орн
- Kannada: ಬುರ್ಕಿನಾ ಫಾಸೊ
- Kannada: ಬುರ್ಕಿನಾ ಫಾಸೋ
- Kannada: ಬುರ್ಕೀನ ಫಾಸೊ
- Kara-Kalpak: Burkina Faso
- Kashmiri: بُرکِنا فیسو
- Kashmiri: बुर्कीना-फासो
- Kashubian: Bùrkina Faso
- Kazakh: Буркина-Фасо
- Kazakh: Буркина Фасо
- Khmer: បួគីណាហ្វាសូ
- Khmer: ប៊ូរគីណាហ្វាសូ
- Kikuyu: Bukinafaso
- Kikuyu: Burkina Faso
- Kinyarwanda: Burukina Faso
- Kirghiz: Буркина-Фасо
- Kirghiz: Буркина Фасо
- Kongo: Burkina Faso
- Korean: 부르키나파소
- Korean: 부르키나 파소
- Kotava: Burkina
- Kurdish: Burkîna Faso
- Kurdish: بورکینافاسۆ
- Ladin: Brukina Faso
- Ladin: Burkina Faso
- Ladino: Burkina Faso
- Lao: Burkina Faso
- Lao: ປະເທດບວກກິນາຟາໂຊ
- Lao: ເບີກິນາຟາໂຊ
- Lao: ເບີກິນາ ຟາໂຊ
- Latin: Burcina Faso
- Latin: Burkina Faso
- Latvian: Burkinafaso
- Ligurian: Borkinn-a Fäso
- Ligurian: Bòrkinn-a Fäso
- Limburgan: Burkina Faso
- Lingala: Bukina Faso
- Lingala: Burkina Faso
- Lingua Franca Nova: Burcina Faso
- Literary Chinese: 布基納法索
- Lithuanian: Burkina Fasas
- Livvi: Burkina Faso
- Lombard: Burkina Faso
- Low German: Burkina Faso
- Lower Sorbian: Burkina Faso
- Luba-Katanga: Bukinafaso
- Luxembourgish: Burkina Faso
- Macedo-Romanian: Burkina Faso
- Macedonian: Буркина Фасо
- Maithili: बुर्किना फासो
- Malagasy: Borkina Faso
- Malagasy: Borkina Fasô
- Malay: Burkina Faso
- Malayalam: ബുര്ക്കിനാ ഫാസോ
- Malayalam: ബർക്കിന ഫാസോ
- Malayalam: ബർക്കിനാ ഫാസോ
- Maltese: Burkina Faso
- Maltese: il-Burkina Faso
- Manipuri: ꯕꯨꯔꯀꯤꯅꯥ ꯐꯥꯁꯣ
- Manx: Burkina Faso
- Maori: Pūkina
- Marathi: बर्किना फासो
- Marathi: बुर्किना फासो
- Mazanderani: بورکینافاسو
- Min Dong Chinese: Burkina Faso
- Min Nan Chinese: Burkina Faso
- Minangkabau: Burkina Faso
- Mingrelian: ბურკინა-ფასო
- Mirandese: Burkina Faso
- Moksha: Буркина-Фасо
- Mongolian: Буркина Фасо
- Mongolian: ꯕꯨꯔꯀꯤꯅꯥ ꯐꯥꯁꯣ
- Moroccan Arabic: بوركينا فاصو
- N'Ko: ߓߙߎߞߌߣߊ߫ ߝߊ߬ߛߏ߫
- Nauru: Burkinabato
- Nepali: बर्किना फासो
- Nepali: बुर्किना फासो
- Newari: बुर्किना फासो
- North Ndebele: Bhukina Faso
- Northern Frisian: Burkiina Faaso
- Northern Luri: بورکینافاسو
- Northern Sami: Burkina Faso
- Norwegian: Burkina Faso
- Norwegian Bokmål: Burkina Faso
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Burkina Faso
- Novial: Burkina Faso
- Occitan (post 1500): Burkina Faso
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Burkina Faso
- Oriya: ବୁରକିନା ଫାସୋ
- Oriya: ବୁର୍କିନା ଫାସୋ
- Oriya: ବୁର୍କିନୋ ଫାସୋ
- Oromo: Burkinaa Faasoo
- Ossetian: Буркина-Фасо
- Ossetian: Буркина Фасо
- Pali: बुर्कीना-फासो
- Pampanga: Burkina Faso
- Pampanga: Burkinafásu
- Panjabi: ਬੁਰਕੀਨਾ ਫ਼ਾਸੋ
- Papiamento: Burkina Faso
- Pedi: Burkina Faso
- Persian: بورکینافاسو
- Persian: بورکینا فاسو
- Piemontese: Burkina Faso
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Burkina Faso
- Polish: Burkina Faso
- Polish: Górna Wolta
- Polish: Kraj prawych ludzi
- Portuguese: Burkina Faso
- Portuguese: Burkina Fasso
- Portuguese: Burquina Faso
- Portuguese: Burquina Fasso
- Pushto: بورکینافاسو
- Pushto: بورکینا فاسو
- Quechua: Burkina Faso
- Quechua: Burkina Phasu
- Quechua: Purkina Phasu
- Romanian: Burkina Faso
- Romanian: Burkina Fasso
- Romansh: Burkina Faso
- Rundi: Burukina Faso
- Russia Buriat: Буркино-Фасо
- Russian: Буркина-Фасо
- Russian: Буркина Фасо
- Rusyn: Буркіна Фасо
- Sakizaya: Burkina Faso
- Sakizaya: Burkina faso
- Samoan: Burkina Faso
- Samogitian: Borkėna Fasos
- Sango: Burkina Faso
- Sanskrit: बुर्कीना-फासो
- Santali: ᱵᱩᱨᱠᱤᱱᱟ ᱯᱷᱟᱥᱳ
- Sardinian: Burkina Faso
- Saterfriesisch: Burkina Faso
- Scots: Burkina Faso
- Scottish Gaelic: Buirciona Faso
- Serbian: Burkina Faso
- Serbian: Буркина Фасо
- Serbo-Croatian: Burkina Faso
- Shan: မိူင်းပူႇၵီႇၼႃးၾႃးသူဝ်ႇ
- Shona: Bhurukina Faso
- Shona: Bukinafaso
- Shona: Burkina Faso
- Sicilian: Burchina Fasu
- Silesian: Burkina Faso
- Sindhi: برڪينا فاسو
- Sindhi: برڪینا فاسو
- Sinhala: බර්කිනා ෆාසෝ
- Skolt Sami: Burkina Faso
- Slovak: Burkina
- Slovak: Burkina Faso
- Slovenian: Burkina Faso
- Somali: Burkiina Faaso
- Somali: Burkina Faso
- South Azerbaijani: بورکینافاسو
- Southern Sotho: Burkina Faso
- Spanish: Burkina Faso
- Spanish: Burkina Fasso (Alto Volta)
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴱⵓⵔⴽⵉⵏⴰ ⴼⴰⵙⵓ
- Sundanese: Burkina Faso
- Swahili: Bukinafaso
- Swahili: Burkina Faso
- Swati: IBhukhina-Faso
- Swedish: Burkina Faso
- Swiss German: Burkina Faso
- Sylheti: ꠛꠥꠞꠇꠤꠘꠣ ꠙꠣꠌꠅ
- Tagalog: Burkina Faso
- Tajik: Burkina-Faso
- Tajik: Буркина-Фасо
- Tajik: Буркина Фасо
- Talysh: Burkino Faso
- Tamil: புர்கினா ஃபாஸோ
- Tamil: புர்க்கினா பாசோ
- Taroko: Burkina faso
- Tatar: Буркина-Фасо
- Tatar: Буркина Фасо
- Telugu: బర్కీనా ఫాసో
- Telugu: బుర్కినా ఫాసో
- Thai: บูร์กินาฟาโซ
- Thai: ประเทศบูร์กินาฟาโซ
- Tibetan: བརཀི་ན། ཕསོ།
- Tibetan: བུར་ཀི་ན་ཕ་སོ།
- Tigrinya: ቡርኪና ፋሶ
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Pekano Faso
- Tosk Albanian: Burkina Faso
- Tsonga: Burkina Faso
- Tumbuka: Burkina Faso
- Tunisian Arabic: بوركينا فاسو
- Turkish: Burkina Faso
- Turkmen: Burkina-Faso
- Turkmen: Burkina Faso
- Twi: Burkina Faso
- Tyap: Burkina Faso
- Tyap: Ri̱pobi̱lik Burkina Faso
- Udmurt: Буркина-Фасо
- Uighur: بۇركىنا فاسو
- Ukrainian: Буркіна-Фасо
- Ukrainian: Буркіна Фасо
- Upper Sorbian: Burkina Faso
- Urdu: برکینا فاسو
- Uzbek: Burkina-Faso
- Uzbek: Burkina Faso
- Venetian: Burkina Faso
- Veps: Burkina Faso
- Vietnamese: Burkina Faso
- Vietnamese: Buốc-ki-na Pha-xô (Burkina Faso)
- Vietnamese: Buốc-ki-na Pha-xô
- Vietnamese: Cộng hòa Burkina Faso
- Vlaams: Burkina Faso
- Vlax Romani: Burkina Faso
- Volapük: Burkinän
- Võro: Burkina Faso
- Walloon: Bourkina Fasso
- Waray (Philippines): Burkina Faso
- Welsh: Burkina Faso
- Welsh: Bwrcina Ffaso
- Western Balochi: بورکینا پاسو
- Western Frisian: Boerkina Faso
- Western Frisian: Burkina Faso
- Western Frisian: Bûrkina Faso
- Western Mari: Буркина Фасо
- Western Panjabi: برکینا فاسو
- Wolof: Burkina Faaso
- Wolof: Burkinaa Faaso
- Wu Chinese: 布基納法索
- Yakut: Буркина Фасо
- Yiddish: בורקינע פֿאַסא
- Yiddish: בורקינע פאסא
- Yoruba: Burkina Faso
- Yoruba: Bùrkínà Fasò
- Yoruba: Bùùkíná Fasò
- Yoruba: Orílẹ́ède Bùùkíná Fasò
- Yue Chinese: 布基納法索
- Zeeuws: Burkina Faso
- Zhuang: Burkina Faso
- Zulu: IBukhina Faso
- Zulu: i-Burkina Faso
- Republic of Upper Volta
- République Voltaïque
- République de Haute-Volta
- Volta Republic
- Volta Superior
- Voltaic Republic
- ma Pukinapaso
- බුර්කිනා ෆාසෝ
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