Burkina Faso
Black Volta Region
Sud-Ouest Region

Gaoua

Gaoua is a market town in southern known for its superstitious values and customs. The population, rested at 45,284. Located in the red earth, green hills, and fast flowing streams of southwestern Burkina Faso, Gaoua is the capital of and forms a sort of capital for the sacred rites and bush lore of the Lobi peoples.
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Gaoua

Latitude
10.3303° or 10° 19′ 49″ north
Longitude
-3.1796° or 3° 10′ 46″ west
Population
25,100
Elevation
337 metres (1,106 feet)
IATA airport code
XGA
United Nations Location Code
BF GAO
Open location code
7C2R8RJC+45
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1920763571
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2360620
Wiki­data ID
Q1011882
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Gaoua” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلدية غاوا”
  • Armenian: “Գավա (Բուրկինա Ֆասո)”
  • Armenian: “Գավա”
  • Asturian: “Gaoua”
  • Belarusian: “Гава”
  • Belarusian: “Гаўа”
  • Cebuano: “Gaoua (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Gaoua”
  • Chinese: “Gaoua”
  • Chinese: “加瓦”
  • Dutch: “Gaoua”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلدية جاوا”
  • Finnish: “Gaoua”
  • French: “Gaoua”
  • German: “Gaoua”
  • Greek: “Γκαουά”
  • Italian: “Gaoua”
  • Japanese: “ガウア”
  • Japanese: “ガワ (ブルキナファソ)”
  • Korean: “가와”
  • Korean: “가우아”
  • Lithuanian: “Gaua”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gaoua”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gaoua”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gaoua”
  • Polish: “Gaoua”
  • Portuguese: “Gaoua”
  • Romanian: “Gaoua”
  • Russian: “Гава”
  • Russian: “Гауа”
  • Slovenian: “Gaoua”
  • Spanish: “Gaoua”
  • Swedish: “Gaoua”
  • Turkish: “Gaoua”
  • Ukrainian: “Гава”
  • Urdu: “گاؤا”
  • Vietnamese: “Gaoua”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gaoua”

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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 “Gaoua”. Photo: Hugues, CC BY-SA 2.0.