Ouahigouya

Ouahigouya is a large town in , near the border. It is the fourth largest city in Burkina, and as the final major city in Burkina on the route to , there is a constant flow of tourists and commercial travelers.
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  • Type: City with 73,200 residents
  • Description: town in northern Burkina Faso
  • Also known as: “Waiguya”

Ouahigouya

Latitude
13.581° or 13° 34′ 52″ north
Longitude
-2.4177° or 2° 25′ 4″ west
Population
73,200
Elevation
317 metres (1,040 feet)
IATA airport code
OUG
United Nations Location Code
BF OUG
Open location code
7C5VHHJJ+9W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1920732032
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2357043
Wiki­data ID
Q569904
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Waray—“Ouahigouya” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ዋሂጎያ”
  • Arabic: “واهيغويا”
  • Armenian: “Վահիգույա”
  • Asturian: “Ouahigouya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ouahigouya”
  • Belarusian: “Уаігуя”
  • Bengali: “ওয়াহিগোয়া”
  • Cebuano: “Ouahigouya (kapital sa rehiyon sa Burkina Faso)”
  • Cebuano: “Ouahigouya”
  • Chinese: “Ouahigouya”
  • Chinese: “瓦希古亞”
  • Czech: “Ouahigouya”
  • Danish: “Ouahigouya”
  • Dutch: “Ouahigouya”
  • Esperanto: “Ouahigouya”
  • Fanti: “Ouahigouya”
  • Finnish: “Ouahigouya”
  • French: “Ouahigouya”
  • German: “Ouahigouya”
  • Hausa: “Ouahigouya”
  • Hebrew: “ואיגויה”
  • Hindi: “ओअहिगोया”
  • Hungarian: “Ouahigouya”
  • Indonesian: “Ouahigouya”
  • Italian: “Ouahigouya”
  • Japanese: “ワヒグヤ”
  • Javanese: “Ouahigouya”
  • Kazakh: “Уахигуя”
  • Kirghiz: “Уахигуя”
  • Korean: “와이구야”
  • Lithuanian: “Uahiguja”
  • Macedonian: “Уахигуја”
  • Malay: “Ouahigouya”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ouahigouya”
  • Mossi: “Ouahigouya”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ouahigouya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ouahigouya”
  • Norwegian: “Ouahigouya”
  • Oromo: “Ouahigouya”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਅਹਿਗੋਯਾ”
  • Persian: “اوهایویا”
  • Persian: “واهیگویا”
  • Polish: “Ouahigouya”
  • Portuguese: “Ouahigouya”
  • Pushto: “واهيګويا”
  • Romanian: “Ouahigouya”
  • Russian: “Вахигуя”
  • Russian: “Уахигуя”
  • Slovak: “Ouahigouya”
  • Slovenian: “Ouahigouya”
  • Somali: “Ouahigouya”
  • Spanish: “Ouahigouya”
  • Swahili: “Ouahigouya”
  • Swedish: “Ouahigouya”
  • Tajik: “Уахигуя”
  • Tatar: “Уахигуя”
  • Turkish: “Ouahigouya”
  • Ukrainian: “Уахігуя”
  • Urdu: “واہیگؤیا”
  • Uzbek: “Ouahigouya”
  • Venetian: “Ouahigouya”
  • Vietnamese: “Ouahigouya”
  • Volapük: “Ouahigouya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ouahigouya”

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