Africa
West Africa

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in . Burkina Faso is one of the friendliest countries in all of Africa. Until unrest began in the late 2010s that made travel to the country unsafe, it received only a few tourists per year, and was an excellent destination for anyone interested in seeing a beautiful West African country and exploring African culture and music.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso.

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is the capital of Burkina Faso and the nation's cultural and economic centre. Its name is informally shortened to Ouaga.

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With a population of more than half a million, is the second largest city in Burkina Faso, and is a major center of culture and music. The city has many historic buildings reflecting its complex past.

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is a city in southwestern Burkina Faso, with a population of 117,452 making it the sixth most populous city in Burkina Faso. It is the capital of the province.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Volta Delta and Black Volta Region.

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The is the central region of Burkina Faso.

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The of Burkina Faso is in the southwest of the country.

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is the Sahelian region of Burkina Faso, along the border of and .

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the arid, easternmost part of Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso

Latitude of center
12.576° or 12° 34′ 34″ north
Longitude of center
-1.604° or 1° 36′ 14″ west
Population
16,800,000
Area
274,200 km² (105,869 miles²)
Elevation
313 metres (1,027 feet)
Capital
Currency
Franc (XOF)
Phone code
.bf
Internet domain
226
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249399288
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
2361809
Wiki­data ID
Q965
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Burkina Faso” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Буркина-Фасо”
  • Achinese: “Burkina Faso”
  • Adyghe: “Буркина-Фасо”
  • Afrikaans: “Boerkina Fasso”
  • Afrikaans: “Burkina Faso”
  • Akan: “Bɔkina Faso”
  • Albanian: “Burkina Faso”
  • Albanian: “Burkina-Faso”
  • Amharic: “ቡርኪና ፋሶ”
  • Amis: “Burkina faso”
  • Angika: “बर्कीना फासो”
  • Arabic: “بركينا فاسو”
  • Arabic: “بوركينا فاسو”
  • Arabic: “بوركينا فاصو”
  • Arabic: “بوركينافاسو”
  • 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: “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”
  • Betawi: “Burkina Paso”
  • 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 Kanuri: “Burkina Faso”
  • Central Kurdish: “بورکینا فاسۆ”
  • Central Kurdish: “بورکینافاسۆ”
  • Chavacano: “Burkina Faso”
  • Chechen: “Буркина Фасо”
  • Chechen: “Буркина- Фасо”
  • Chechen: “Буркина-Фасо”
  • Cherokee: “ᏋᎩᎾ ᏩᏐ”
  • Chinese: “Bùjīnàfǎsuǒ”
  • 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”
  • Esperanto: “BF”
  • Esperanto: “Burkino”
  • Estonian: “Burkina Faso”
  • Ewe: “Burkina Faso nutome”
  • Ewe: “Burkina Faso”
  • Extremaduran: “Burquina Fasu”
  • Farefare: “Burkina Faso”
  • Faroese: “Burkina Faso”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Burkina Faso”
  • Finnish: “Burkina Faso”
  • Fon: “Bukinato”
  • Fon: “Bukinatò”
  • French: “bf”
  • French: “BF”
  • French: “Burk. F.”
  • French: “Burk. Faso”
  • French: “Burkina Faso”
  • French: “Burkina”
  • French: “le Burkina Faso”
  • French: “Pays des Hommes intègres”
  • Fulah: “Burkibaa Faaso”
  • Fulah: “Burkina Faso”
  • Ga: “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)”
  • Gilaki: “بۊرکينافاسؤ”
  • Greek: “Μπουρκίνα Φάσο”
  • Guarani: “Vukína Fáso”
  • Guarani: “Vurukína Fáso”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Birkina Faso”
  • Gujarati: “બુર્કિના ફાસો”
  • Haitian: “Boukinafaso”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Burkina Faso”
  • Hausa: “Burkina Faso”
  • Hawaiian: “Burakina Faso”
  • Hebrew: “בורקינה פאסו”
  • Hindi: “बर्किना फासो”
  • Hindi: “बुर्किना फासो”
  • Hindi: “बुर्किना फ़ासो”
  • Hungarian: “Burkina Faso”
  • Hungarian: “Burkina”
  • 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”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Burkina Fasu”
  • Kabyle: “Burkina Faso”
  • Kalaallisut: “Burkina Faso”
  • Kalmyk: “Буркинапасин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಬುರ್ಕಿನಾ ಫಾಸೊ”
  • Kannada: “ಬುರ್ಕಿನಾ ಫಾಸೋ”
  • Kannada: “ಬುರ್ಕೀನ ಫಾಸೊ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Burkina Faso”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Burkina-Faso”
  • Kashmiri: “بُرکِنا فیسو”
  • Kashmiri: “बुर्कीना-फासो”
  • Kashubian: “Bùrkina Faso”
  • Kazakh: “Буркина Фасо”
  • Kazakh: “Буркина-Фасо”
  • Khmer: “ប៊ូរគីណាហ្វាសូ”
  • Khmer: “បួគីណាហ្វាសូ”
  • Kikuyu: “Bukinafaso”
  • Kikuyu: “Burkina Faso”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Burukina Faso”
  • Kirghiz: “Буркина Фасо”
  • Kirghiz: “Буркина-Фасо”
  • Komering: “Burkina Faso”
  • Kongo: “Burkina Faso”
  • Korean: “부르키나 파소”
  • Korean: “부르키나파소”
  • Kotava: “Burkina”
  • Kurdish: “Burkîna Faso”
  • Kurdish: “بورکینافاسۆ”
  • Kusaal: “Burnkina Faso”
  • Ladin: “Brukina Faso”
  • Ladin: “Burkina Faso”
  • Ladino: “Burkina Faso”
  • Lao: “ເບີກິນາ ຟາໂຊ”
  • Lao: “ເບີກິນາຟາໂຊ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດບວກກິນາຟາໂຊ”
  • 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”
  • Lule Sami: “Burkijnna Fásso”
  • Luxembourgish: “Burkina Faso”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Burkina Faso”
  • Macedonian: “Буркина Фасо”
  • Maithili: “बुर्किना फासो”
  • Malagasy: “Borkina Faso”
  • Malagasy: “Borkina Fasô”
  • Malay: “Burkina Faso”
  • Malayalam: “ബർക്കിന ഫാസോ”
  • Malayalam: “ബർക്കിനാ ഫാസോ”
  • Malayalam: “ബുര്‍ക്കിനാ 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”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بوركينا فاصو”
  • Mossi: “Burkina Faso”
  • 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 Bokmål: “Burkina Faso”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Burkina Faso”
  • Norwegian: “Burkina Faso”
  • Novial: “Burkina Faso”
  • Obolo: “Bukina 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: “بورکینا فاسو”
  • Persian: “بورکینافاسو”
  • 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: “بورکينا فاسو”
  • Pushto: “بورکينافاسو”
  • 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”
  • Sinhala: “බුර්කිනා ෆාසෝ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Burkina Faso”
  • Slovak: “Burkina Faso”
  • Slovak: “Burkina”
  • Slovenian: “Burkina Faso”
  • Somali: “Burkiina Faaso”
  • Somali: “Burkina Faso”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بورکینافاسو”
  • South Ndebele: “BF”
  • South Ndebele: “BFA”
  • South Ndebele: “Burkina Faso”
  • Southern Dagaare: “bf”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Burkina Faso”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Republic of Burkina Faso”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Republic of Upper Volta (-1984)”
  • 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”
  • Tachelhit: “Buṛkina Faṣu”
  • 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: “Буркина́ Фасо́”
  • 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: “Buốc-ki-na Pha-xô (Burkina Faso)”
  • Vietnamese: “Buốc-ki-na Pha-xô”
  • Vietnamese: “Burkina Faso”
  • 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 פאסא”
  • Yiddish: “בורקינע פֿאַסא”
  • 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: “i-Burkina Faso”
  • Zulu: “IBukhina Faso”
  • “BF”
  • “BFA”
  • “Borkėna Fasos”
  • “Burkina Faso”
  • “Burquina Faso”
  • “ma Pukinapaso”
  • “बुर्किना फासो”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Burkina Faso”. Photo: qiv, CC BY-SA 2.0.