Volta Delta
Centre Region
Kadiogo Province

Ouagadougou

Ouagadougou is the capital of and the nation's cultural and economic centre. Its name is informally shortened to Ouaga.
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  • Type: City with 1,920,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Burkina Faso
  • Also known as: “Huagadugu”, “Kumbee-Tenga”, “Ouaga”, “Ouagadouga”, “Uagadougou”, and “Wagadugu”
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stade Municipal and Ouagadougou Cathedral.

Stadium
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Stade Dr. Issoufou Joseph Conombo is a multi-use in Ouagadougou, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home of Santos Football Club. The stadium holds 25,000 people.

Church
, or the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Ouagadougou is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ouagadougou in Ouagadougou, the capital of .

Aerodrome
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, officially Thomas Sankara International Airport Ouagadougou, is an in the center of the capital city of Ouagadougou in .

Ouagadougou

Latitude
12.3682° or 12° 22′ 6″ north
Longitude
-1.5271° or 1° 31′ 38″ west
Population
1,920,000
Elevation
299 metres (981 feet)
IATA airport code
OUA
United Nations Location Code
BF OUA
Open location code
7C4W9F9F+75
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565002
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2357048
Wiki­data ID
Q3777
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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Zulu—“Ouagadougou” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Уагадугу”
  • Afrikaans: “Ouagadougou”
  • Albanian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Albanian: “Uagadugu”
  • Amharic: “ዋጋዱጉ”
  • Arabic: “واغادوغو”
  • Aragonese: “Ouagadougou”
  • Armenian: “Ուագադուգու”
  • Arpitan: “Ouagadougou”
  • Asturian: “Uagadugú”
  • Awadhi: “ऊगादोगो”
  • Azerbaijani: “Uaqaduqu”
  • Balinese: “Ouagadougou”
  • Bambara: “Wàadúu”
  • Bambara: “Wagadugu”
  • Basque: “Uagadugu”
  • Belarusian: “Уагадугу”
  • Bengali: “ওয়াগাদুগু”
  • Bosnian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Breton: “Ouagadougou”
  • Bulgarian: “Уагадугу”
  • Catalan: “Ouagadougou”
  • Catalan: “Uagadugu”
  • Cebuano: “Ouagadougou (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Ouagadougou”
  • Central Bikol: “Ouagadougou”
  • Central Kurdish: “واگادووگوو”
  • Chechen: “Уагадугу”
  • Chinese: “Ouagadougou”
  • Chinese: “瓦加杜古”
  • Chinese: “華加杜古”
  • Chuvash: “Уагадугу”
  • Cornish: “Ouagadougou”
  • Croatian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Czech: “Ouagadougou”
  • Danish: “Ouagadougou”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ouagadougou”
  • Dutch: “Ouagadougou”
  • Esperanto: “Uagaduguo”
  • Esperanto: “Vagaduguo”
  • Estonian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Extremaduran: “Uagadugú”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Ouagadougou”
  • Finnish: “Ouagadougou”
  • French: “Ouagadougou”
  • Fulah: “Ouagadougou”
  • Ga: “Kumbee-Tenga”
  • Ga: “Ouagadougou”
  • Ga: “Wagadugu”
  • Galician: “Uagadugú”
  • Georgian: “უაგადუგუ”
  • German: “Ouaga”
  • German: “Ouagadougou”
  • German: “Wagadugu”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ouaga”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ouagadougou”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Wagadugu”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Waogdgo”
  • Greek: “Ουαγκαντουγκού”
  • Greek: “Ουαγκαντούγκου”
  • Gujarati: “વાગડૂગૂ”
  • Haitian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ouagadougou”
  • Hausa: “Ouaga”
  • Hausa: “Ouagadougou”
  • Hausa: “Wagadugu”
  • Hausa: “Waogdgo”
  • Hebrew: “ואגאדוגו”
  • Hindi: “ऊगाडूगू”
  • Hindi: “ऊगादोगो”
  • Hindi: “वागाडुगु”
  • Hungarian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Icelandic: “Ouagadougou”
  • Ido: “Ouagadougou”
  • Iloko: “Ouagadougou”
  • Inari Sami: “Ouagadougou”
  • Indonesian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Interlingua: “Ouagadougou”
  • Interlingue: “Ouagadougou”
  • Irish: “Ouagadougou”
  • Italian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Japanese: “ワガドゥグー”
  • Javanese: “Ouagadougou”
  • Kabiyè: “Wagaadugu”
  • Kabyle: “Wagadugu”
  • Kannada: “ಔಗಡೌಗೌ”
  • Kazakh: “Уагадугу қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Уагадугу”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Wagadugu”
  • Kirghiz: “Уагадугу”
  • Komering: “Ouagadougou”
  • Kongo: “Uagadugu”
  • Korean: “와가두구”
  • Kotava: “Ouagadougou”
  • Kurdish: “Ouagadougou”
  • Latin: “Uagadugu”
  • Latvian: “Kumbī Tenga”
  • Latvian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Latvian: “Vagadugu”
  • Ligurian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Lithuanian: “Uagadugu”
  • Livvi: “Uagadugu”
  • Lombard: “Ouagadougou”
  • Low German: “Wagadugu”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ouagadougou”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Macedonian: “Уагадугу”
  • Malagasy: “Ouagadougou”
  • Malay: “Ouagadougou”
  • Malayalam: “ഉഗാദുഗൌ”
  • Malayalam: “വഗദുഗു”
  • Maltese: “Ouagadougou”
  • Marathi: “वागाडुगू”
  • Mazanderani: “واگادوگو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ouagadougou”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ouagadougou”
  • Minangkabau: “Ouagadougou”
  • Mingrelian: “უაგადუგუ”
  • Moksha: “Уагадугу”
  • Mongolian: “Угадугу”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “واڭادوڭو”
  • Mossi: “Ouagadougou”
  • Mossi: “Waogdgo”
  • Nauru: “Ouagadougou”
  • Nepali: “ऊगादोगो”
  • Nepali: “वागादुगु”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ouaga”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ouagadougou”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ouagadougou”
  • Norwegian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Novial: “Uagadugu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ouagadougou”
  • Ossetian: “Уагадугу”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਾਗਾਦੁਗੂ”
  • Papiamento: “Ouagadougou”
  • Persian: “آواگادوگو”
  • Persian: “اوآگادوگو”
  • Persian: “واگادوگو”
  • Piemontese: “Ouagadougou”
  • Polish: “Wagadugu”
  • Portuguese: “Ouagadougou”
  • Portuguese: “Uagadugu”
  • Pushto: “آواګادوګو”
  • Pushto: “واګادوګو”
  • Romanian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Russian: “Уагадугу”
  • Sardinian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Scots: “Ouagadougou”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ouagadougou”
  • Serbian: “Уагадугу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Shona: “Ouagadougou”
  • Sicilian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Silesian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Sindhi: “واگادوگو”
  • Sinhala: “ඕගඩගු”
  • Sinhala: “වැගඩුගු”
  • Slovak: “Ouagadougou”
  • Slovenian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Somali: “Ouagadougou”
  • Somali: “Ougadougou”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوآقادوقو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوآگادوگو”
  • Spanish: “Uagadugu”
  • Spanish: “Uagadugú”
  • Swahili: “Wagadugu”
  • Swedish: “Ouagadougou”
  • Tagalog: “Ouagadougou”
  • Tajik: “Уагадугу”
  • Talysh: “Uagadugu”
  • Talysh: “Uaqaduqu”
  • Tamil: “வாகடூகு”
  • Tamil: “வாகதூகு”
  • Telugu: “వాగడూగూ”
  • Thai: “วากาดูกู”
  • Tibetan: “ཨོ་འ་ག་དོའུ་གོའུ།”
  • Turkish: “Ouagadougou”
  • Turkish: “Vagadugu”
  • Tyap: “Ouaga”
  • Tyap: “Ouagadougou”
  • Tyap: “Waga”
  • Tyap: “Wagadugu”
  • Udmurt: “Уагадугу”
  • Ukrainian: “Уагадугу”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Urdu: “اواگادوگو”
  • Urdu: “واگادوگو”
  • Uzbek: “Uagadugu”
  • Venetian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Veps: “Uagadugu”
  • Vietnamese: “Ouagadougou”
  • Volapük: “Ouagadougou”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ouagadougou”
  • Welsh: “Ouagadougou”
  • Western Frisian: “Ouagadougou”
  • Western Mari: “Уагадугу”
  • Western Panjabi: “اوگاڈوگو”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓦加杜古”
  • Yiddish: “וואגאדוגו”
  • Yoruba: “Ouagadougou”
  • Yue Chinese: “Ouagadougou”
  • Zulu: “i-Ouagadougou”
  • “Ouagadougou”
  • “Uagadugu”

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