Black Volta Region
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Banfora

Banfora is a city in southwestern , with a population of 117,452 making it the sixth most populous city in Burkina Faso. It is the capital of the province.
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  • Type: City with 75,900 residents
  • Description: city in Burkina Faso
  • Also known as: “Banforo”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gare de Banfora.

Railway station
Photo: Vincent C, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station.

Banfora

Latitude
10.6427° or 10° 38′ 34″ north
Longitude
-4.7526° or 4° 45′ 10″ west
Population
75,900
Elevation
299 metres (981 feet)
IATA airport code
BNR
United Nations Location Code
BF BNR
Open location code
7C2QJ6VW+3W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302737807
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2362909
Wiki­data ID
Q639674
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Banfora” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بانفورا”
  • Armenian: “Բանֆորա”
  • Asturian: “Banfora”
  • Basque: “Banfora”
  • Belarusian: “Банфора”
  • Bengali: “বানফোরা”
  • Bulgarian: “Банфора”
  • Cebuano: “Banfora”
  • Chinese: “Banfora”
  • Chinese: “邦福拉”
  • Czech: “Banfora”
  • Danish: “Banfora”
  • Dutch: “Banfora”
  • Dutch: “Banforo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بانفورا”
  • Estonian: “Banfora”
  • Fanti: “Banfora”
  • Finnish: “Banfora”
  • French: “Banfora”
  • French: “Banforo”
  • Galician: “Banfora”
  • Georgian: “ბანფორა”
  • German: “Banfora”
  • Greek: “Μπανφορά”
  • Gujarati: “બેનફોરા”
  • Hebrew: “באנפורה”
  • Hindi: “बनफोरा”
  • Hungarian: “Banfora”
  • Indonesian: “Banfora”
  • Italian: “Banfora”
  • Japanese: “バンフォラ”
  • Kannada: “ಬನ್ಫೊರಾ”
  • Korean: “방포라”
  • Latvian: “Banfora”
  • Lithuanian: “Banfora”
  • Malay: “Banfora”
  • Marathi: “बॅनफॉर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Banfora”
  • Moksha: “Банфора”
  • Mossi: “Banfora”
  • Nauru: “Banfora”
  • Northern Frisian: “Banfora”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Banfora”
  • Norwegian: “Banfora”
  • Persian: “بانفورا”
  • Polish: “Banfora”
  • Portuguese: “Banfora”
  • Romanian: “Banfora”
  • Russian: “Банфора”
  • Russian: “Банфору”
  • Sinhala: “බන්ෆොරා”
  • Slovenian: “Banfora”
  • Slovenian: “Banforo”
  • Spanish: “Banfora”
  • Swedish: “Banfora”
  • Tamil: “பான்போரே”
  • Telugu: “బన్ ఫోరా”
  • Thai: “แบนโฟร่า”
  • Turkish: “Banfora”
  • Ukrainian: “Банфора”
  • Urdu: “بانفورا”
  • Uzbek: “Banfora”
  • Vietnamese: “Banfora”
  • Volapük: “Banfora”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Banfora”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Banfora”. Photo: Maarten van der Bent, CC BY-SA 2.0.