Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou is the capital of Burkina Faso and the nation's cultural and economic centre. Its name is informally shortened to Ouaga.
- City with about 2,450,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 310 metres (1,000 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code OUA
- …was formerly known as “Wagadugu”
- Description: capital of Burkina Faso
- Also known as“Huagadugu”“Kumbee-Tenga”“Ouaga”“Ouagadouga”“Uagadougou”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ouagadougou Cathedral and Stade Municipal.
Ouagadougou Cathedral
Church
Ouagadougou Cathedral, or the Cathedral of the…
Stade Municipal
Stadium
Stade Dr. Issoufou Joseph Conombo is a multi-use stadium in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Ouagadougou Airport
Thomas Sankara International Airport Ouagadougou…
Ouagadougou
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Latitude
12.3682° or 12° 22′ 6″ north
Longitude
-1.5271° or 1° 31′ 38″ west
UN/LOCODE
BF OUA
Open location code
7C4W9F9F+75
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Adyghe to Zulu—“Ouagadougou” goes by many names.
УагадугуAdyghe
OuagadougouAfrikaans
OuagadougouAlbanian
UagaduguAlbanian
ዋጋዱጉAmharic
واغادوغوArabic
OuagadougouAragonese
ՈւագադուգուArmenian
OuagadougouArpitan
UagadugúAsturian
ऊगादोगोAwadhi
UaqaduquAzerbaijani
OuagadougouBalinese
WàadúuBambara
WagaduguBambara
UagaduguBasque
УагадугуBelarusian
ওয়াগাদুগুBengali
OuagadougouBosnian
OuagadougouBreton
УагадугуBulgarian
OuagadougouCatalan
UagaduguCatalan
OuagadougouCebuano
Ouagadougou (ulohang dakbayan)Cebuano
OuagadougouCentral Bikol
واگادووگووCentral Kurdish
УагадугуChechen
瓦加杜古Chinese
УагадугуChuvash
OuagadougouCornish
OuagadougouCroatian
OuagadougouCzech
OuagadougouDanish
OuagadougouDimli (individual language)
OuagadougouDutch
واجادوجوEgyptian Arabic
UagaduguoEsperanto
VagaduguoEsperanto
OuagadougouEstonian
UagadugúExtremaduran
OuagadougouFiji Hindi
OuagadougouFinnish
OuagadougouFulah
Kumbee-TengaGa
OuagadougouGa
WagaduguGa
UagadugúGalician
უაგადუგუGeorgian
OuagaGhanaian Pidgin English
OuagadougouGhanaian Pidgin English
WagaduguGhanaian Pidgin English
WaogdgoGhanaian Pidgin English
ΟυαγκαντουγκούGreek
વાગડૂગૂGujarati
OuagadougouHaitian
OuagadougouHakka Chinese
OuagaHausa
OuagadougouHausa
WagaduguHausa
WaogdgoHausa
ואגאדוגוHebrew
ऊगादोगोHindi
वागाडूगूHindi
OuagadougouHungarian
OuagadougouIcelandic
OuagadougouIdo
OuagadougouIloko
OuagadougouInari Sami
OuagadougouIndonesian
OuagadougouInterlingua
OuagadougouInterlingue
OuagadougouIrish
OuagadougouItalian
ワガドゥグーJapanese
OuagadougouJavanese
WagaaduguKabiyè
WagaduguKabyle
ಔಗಡೌಗೌKannada
УагадугуKazakh
Уагадугу қаласыKazakh
WagaduguKinyarwanda
УагадугуKirghiz
OuagadougouKomering
UagaduguKongo
와가두구Korean
OuagadougouKotava
OuagadougouKurdish
UagaduguLatin
Kumbī TengaLatvian
OuagadougouLatvian
VagaduguLatvian
OuagadougouLigurian
UagaduguLithuanian
UagaduguLivvi
OuagadougouLombard
WagaduguLow German
OuagadougouLuxembourgish
OuagadougouMacedo-Romanian
УагадугуMacedonian
OuagadougouMalagasy
OuagadougouMalay
ഉഗാദുഗൌMalayalam
വഗദുഗുMalayalam
OuagadougouMaltese
वागाडुगूMarathi
واگادوگوMazanderani
OuagadougouMin Dong Chinese
OuagadougouMin Nan Chinese
OuagadougouMinangkabau
უაგადუგუMingrelian
УагадугуMoksha
УгадугуMongolian
واڭادوڭوMoroccan Arabic
OuagadougouMossi
WaogdgoMossi
OuagadougouNauru
ऊगादोगोNepali
वागादुगुNepali
OuagadougouNorthern Frisian
OuagadougouNorwegian
OuagaNorwegian Bokmål
OuagadougouNorwegian Bokmål
OuagadougouNorwegian Nynorsk
UagaduguNovial
OuagadougouOccitan (post 1500)
WogodogoOccitan (post 1500)
УагадугуOssetian
ਵਾਗਾਦੁਗੂPanjabi
OuagadougouPapiamento
آواگادوگوPersian
واگادوگوPersian
OuagadougouPiemontese
WagaduguPolish
آواګادوګوPushto
واګادوګوPushto
OuagadougouRomanian
УагадугуRussian
OuagadougouSardinian
OuagadougouScots
OuagadougouScottish Gaelic
УагадугуSerbian
OuagadougouSerbo-Croatian
OuagadougouShona
OuagadougouSicilian
OuagadougouSilesian
واگادوگوSindhi
ඕගඩගුSinhala
වැගඩුගුSinhala
OuagadougouSlovak
OuagadougouSlovenian
OuagadougouSomali
OugadougouSomali
اوآقادوقوSouth Azerbaijani
اوآگادوگوSouth Azerbaijani
WagaduguSwahili
OuagadougouSwedish
OuagadougouTagalog
УагадугуTajik
UagaduguTalysh
UaqaduquTalysh
வாகடூகுTamil
வாகதூகுTamil
వాగడూగూTelugu
วากาดูกูThai
ཨོ་འ་ག་དོའུ་གོའུ།Tibetan
OuagadougouTurkish
VagaduguTurkish
OuagaTyap
OuagadougouTyap
WagaTyap
WagaduguTyap
УагадугуUdmurt
УагадугуUkrainian
УаґадуґуUkrainian
OuagadougouUpper Sorbian
اواگادوگوUrdu
واگادوگوUrdu
UagaduguUzbek
OuagadougouVenetian
UagaduguVeps
OuagadougouVietnamese
OuagadougouVolapük
OuagadougouWaray (Philippines)
OuagadougouWelsh
OuagadougouWestern Frisian
УагадугуWestern Mari
اوگاڈوگوWestern Panjabi
瓦加杜古Wu Chinese
וואגאדוגוYiddish
OuagadougouYoruba
OuagadougouYue Chinese
華加杜古Yue Chinese
i-OuagadougouZulu
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