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Western Africa

Burkina Faso

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Its name means "land of upright people" — renamed from Upper Volta in 1984.

Capital: Ouagadougou
Population: 23,548,781
Area: 272,967 km²
Density: 86.3 / km²
Currency: West African CFA franc (XOF Fr)
Language: French
Indo-European
Religion: Sunni Islam

Land borders · 6 · landlocked

🇧🇯 Benin 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast 🇬🇭 Ghana 🇲🇱 Mali 🇳🇪 Niger 🇹🇬 Togo

Flag — Red over green with a yellow star in the centre.

Outline — A landlocked oval in the Sahel bend of West Africa.