Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou is the capital of Burkina Faso and the nation's cultural and economic centre. Its name is informally shortened to Ouaga.Photo: Jeff Attaway, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Sputniktilt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Stade Municipal
Photo: Neonstar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stade Dr. Issoufou Joseph Conombo is a multi-use stadium in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Ouagadougou Cathedral
Ouagadougou Cathedral, or the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Ouagadougou is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ouagadougou in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.Ouagadougou Airport
Photo: Romanceor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ouagadougou Airport, officially Thomas Sankara International Airport Ouagadougou, is an international airport in the center of the capital city of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso.
Ouagadougou
- Type: City with 1,920,000 residents
- Description: capital of Burkina Faso
- Categories: big city, human settlement and locality
- Location: Kadiogo Province, Centre Region, Volta Delta, Burkina Faso, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
12.3682° or 12° 22' 6" northLongitude
-1.5271° or 1° 31' 38" westPopulation
1,920,000Elevation
299 metres (981 feet)IATA airport code
OUAUnited Nations Location Code
BF OUAOpen Location Code
7C4W9F9F+75OpenStreetMap ID
node 27565002OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2357048Wikidata ID
Q3777Ouagadougou Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Wagadugu
- Adyghe: Уагадугу
- Afrikaans: Ouagadougou
- Akan: Ouagadougou
- Albanian: Ouagadougou
- Albanian: Uagadugu
- Amharic: ዋጋዱጉ
- Arabic: Ouagadougou
- Arabic: واغادوغو
- Aragonese: Ouagadougou
- Armenian: Ուագադուգու
- Arpitan: Ouagadougou
- Asturian: Uagadugú
- Avaric: Ouagadougou
- Awadhi: ऊगादोगो
- Azerbaijani: Uaqaduqu
- Balinese: Ouagadougou
- Bambara: Wagadugu
- Bambara: Wàadúu
- Basque: Uagadugu
- Belarusian: Уагадугу
- Bengali: ওয়াগাদুগু
- Bosnian: Ouagadougou
- Breton: Ouagadougou
- Bulgarian: Уагадугу
- Catalan: Ouagadougou
- Catalan: Uagadugu
- Cebuano: Ouagadougou (ulohang dakbayan)
- Cebuano: Ouagadougou
- Central Bikol: Ouagadougou
- Central Kurdish: ئۆئاگادۆگۆ
- Central Kurdish: واگادووگوو
- Chechen: Уагадугу
- Chinese: Ouagadougou
- Chinese: 瓦加杜古
- Chinese: 華加杜古
- Chuvash: Уагадугу
- Cornish: Ouagadougou
- Croatian: Ouagadougou
- Czech: Ouagadougou
- Danish: Ouagadougou
- Dimli (individual language): Ouagadougou
- Dutch: Ouagadougou
- Esperanto: Uagaduguo
- Esperanto: Vagaduguo
- Estonian: Ouagadougou
- Fiji Hindi: Ouagadougou
- Finnish: Ouagadougou
- French: Ouagadougou
- Fulah: Ouagadougou
- Galician: Uagadugú
- Georgian: უაგადუგუ
- German: Ouaga
- German: Ouagadougou
- German: Wagadugu
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Ouagadougou
- Greek: Ουαγκαντουγκού
- Greek: Ουαγκαντούγκου
- Gujarati: વાગડૂગૂ
- Haitian: Ouagadougou
- Hakka Chinese: Ouagadougou
- Hausa: Ouagadougou
- Hebrew: ואגאדוגו
- Hindi: ऊगाडूगू
- Hindi: ऊगादोगो
- Hindi: वागाडुगु
- Hungarian: Ouagadougou
- Icelandic: Ouagadougou
- Ido: Ouagadougou
- Iloko: Ouagadougou
- Inari Sami: Ouagadougou
- Indonesian: Ouagadougou
- Interlingua: Ouagadougou
- Interlingue: Ouagadougou
- Irish: Ouagadougou
- Italian: Ouagadougou
- Japanese: ワガドゥグー
- Javanese: Ouagadougou
- Kabiyè: Wagaadugu
- Kabyle: Wagadugu
- Kannada: ಔಗಡೌಗೌ
- Kazakh: Уагадугу
- Kazakh: Уагадугу қаласы
- Kinyarwanda: Wagadugu
- Kirghiz: Уагадугу
- Kongo: Uagadugu
- Korean: 와가두구
- Kotava: Ouagadougou
- Kurdish: Ouagadougou
- Lao: Ouagadougou
- Latin: Uagadugu
- Latvian: Vagadugu
- Ligurian: Ouagadougou
- Lithuanian: Uagadugu
- Livvi: Uagadugu
- Lombard: Ouagadougou
- Luxembourgish: Ouagadougou
- Macedo-Romanian: Ouagadougou
- Macedonian: Уагадугу
- Malagasy: Ouagadougou
- Malay: Ouagadougou
- Malayalam: ഉഗാദുഗൌ
- Maltese: Ouagadougou
- Marathi: वागाडुगू
- Mazanderani: واگادوگو
- Min Dong Chinese: Ouagadougou
- Min Nan Chinese: Ouagadougou
- Mingrelian: უაგადუგუ
- Moksha: Уагадугу
- Mongolian: Угадугу
- Moroccan Arabic: واڭادوڭو
- Mossi: Waogdgo
- Nauru: Ouagadougou
- Nepali: ऊगादोगो
- Nepali: वागादुगु
- Northern Frisian: Ouagadougou
- Norwegian: Ouagadougou
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ouaga
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ouagadougou
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Ouagadougou
- Novial: Uagadugu
- Occitan (post 1500): Ouagadougou
- Ossetian: Уагадугу
- Panjabi: ਵਾਗਾਦੁਗੂ
- Papiamento: Ouagadougou
- Persian: آواگادوگو
- Persian: اوآگادوگو
- Persian: واگادوگو
- Piemontese: Ouagadougou
- Polish: Wagadugu
- Portuguese: Ouagadougou
- Portuguese: Uagadugu
- Pushto: آواګادوګو
- Pushto: واګادوګو
- Romanian: Ouagadougou
- Russian: Уагадугу
- Sardinian: Ouagadougou
- Scots: Ouagadougou
- Scottish Gaelic: Ouagadougou
- Serbian: Уагадугу
- Serbo-Croatian: Ouagadougou
- Shona: Ouagadougou
- Sicilian: Ouagadougou
- Silesian: Ouagadougou
- Sinhala: ඕගඩගු
- Sinhala: වැගඩුගු
- Slovak: Ouagadougou
- Slovenian: Ouagadougou
- Somali: Ouagadougou
- Somali: Ougadougou
- South Azerbaijani: اوآقادوقو
- South Azerbaijani: اوآگادوگو
- Spanish: Uagadugu
- Spanish: Uagadugú
- Swahili: Wagadugu
- Swedish: Ouagadougou
- Tagalog: Ouagadougou
- Tajik: Уагадугу
- Tamil: வாகடூகு
- Telugu: వాగడూగూ
- Thai: วากาดูกู
- Tibetan: ཨོ་འ་ག་དོའུ་གོའུ།
- Turkish: Ouagadougou
- Turkish: Vagadugu
- Udmurt: Уагадугу
- Ukrainian: Уагадугу
- Upper Sorbian: Ouagadougou
- Urdu: اواگادوگو
- Urdu: واگادوگو
- Uzbek: Uagadugu
- Venetian: Ouagadougou
- Veps: Uagadugu
- Vietnamese: Ouagadougou
- Volapük: Ouagadougou
- Waray (Philippines): Ouagadougou
- Welsh: Ouagadougou
- Western Frisian: Ouagadougou
- Western Mari: Уагадугу
- Western Panjabi: اوگاڈوگو
- Wu Chinese: 瓦加杜古
- Yiddish: וואגאדוגו
- Yoruba: Ouagadougou
- Yue Chinese: Ouagadougou
- Huagadugu
- Ouagadouga
- Uagadougou
Other Places Named Ouagadougou
Localities in the Area
- BilbaloghoSuburb
- PaspangaNeighbourhood
- NemninNeighbourhood
- LarléTown
- Kologh-NabaTown
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