Its name means land of upright people, chosen in 1984 to replace the colonial name Upper Volta.
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Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Africa
ยท Western Africa
0Population
272.97Kkmยฒ of land
$787GDP / person
OuagadougouCapital
- ISO codes
- BF ยท BFA
- Density
- 74 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- French
- Currency
- West African CFA franc (XOF)
- Dial code
- +226
- Internet domain
- .bf
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 12.6730ยฐ N, 1.3640ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Burkinabe
- UN region
- Western Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $15.99B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 6
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By the numbers
How Burkina Faso stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
59th
of 242 ยท 0.26% of world population
Land area
76th
of 242 ยท 0.18% of world land
GDP per person
219th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
128th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Burkina Faso
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 20,321,378 people, the 59th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.26 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 272,967 kmยฒ, making it the 76th largest country here - about 8.9 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 74 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Ouagadougou, at 12.37ยฐ N, 1.53ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 1,149,000.
Shares land borders with 6 countries: Benin, Cรดte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Niger (and 1 more).
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Ouagadougou.
The currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, symbol Fr).
The official language is French.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Ouagadougou
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UTC+00:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Ouagadougou
Kadiogo
12.3723ยฐ N, 1.5267ยฐ W
1.15M
2
Bobo Dioulasso
Houet
11.1800ยฐ N, 4.2900ยฐ W
360.11K
Land neighbours
6 countries share a border with Burkina Faso.