Yako
Yako is a town in northern Burkina Faso, the capital of Passoré Province. It lies 109 kilometres north-west of Ouagadougou. Yako is known for its large mosque and as the birthplace of former President Thomas Sankara.
- Town with 22,700 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 332 metres (1,089 feet)
- …is also known as “Yako, Burkina Faso”
- Description: town in Burkina Faso
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Latitude
12.96129° or 12° 57′ 41″ north
Longitude
-2.26343° or 2° 15′ 48″ west
UN/LOCODE
BF YKP
Open location code
7C4VXP6P+GJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Waray—“Yako” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ያኮ”
- Arabic: “ياكو”
- Asturian: “Yako”
- Azerbaijani: “Yako”
- Belarusian: “Яко”
- Bengali: “ইয়াকো”
- Cebuano: “Yako”
- Chinese: “亚科”
- Chinese: “雅科”
- Czech: “Yako”
- Dutch: “Yako”
- Finnish: “Yako”
- French: “Yako”
- Galician: “Iako, Burkina Faso”
- German: “Yako”
- Hausa: “Yako”
- Hebrew: “יאקו”
- Hindi: “याको”
- Indonesian: “Yako”
- Italian: “Yako”
- Japanese: “ヤコ (ブルキナファソ)”
- Japanese: “ヤコ”
- Javanese: “Yako”
- Kazakh: “Yako”
- Kirghiz: “Yako”
- Luxembourgish: “Yako”
- Malay: “Yako”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Yako”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yako”
- Oromo: “Yako”
- Panjabi: “ਯਾਕੋ”
- Persian: “یاکو”
- Polish: “Yako”
- Portuguese: “Yako”
- Pushto: “یاکو”
- Romanian: “Yako”
- Russian: “Яко”
- Somali: “Yako”
- Spanish: “Yako”
- Swahili: “Yako”
- Swedish: “Yako”
- Tajik: “Yako”
- Tatar: “Yako”
- Turkish: “Yako”
- Ukrainian: “Яко”
- Urdu: “یاکو”
- Uzbek: “Yako”
- Waray (Philippines): “Yako”
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