africa • BFA
Burkina Faso
Location marker · geographic overview
13° N / 2° WTHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Ouagadougou
- Population
- 23,548,781 2024
- Area
- 272,967 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- French
- Currency
- West African CFA franc (XOF)
- Geography
- Landlocked
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa.
Landscape & landmarks
Burkina Faso, despite being poor, has an indescribably rich culture. Its highlights include spiritual mask dances, mud mosques, Tuareg traders, an extraordinary music and cinema scene, thousand-year-old ruins and remote communities that follow animistic beliefs.Read the see section ↗
Food & everyday culture
Any run-of-the-mill Burkinabé restaurant will most certainly have one or all of the following: […] Tô = a millet or corn flour based jelly-like dish served with a sauce. Sauces commonly are okra-based (fr. "sauce gumbo" - tends to be on the viscous-side), peanut-based (fr. "sauce arachide"), baobab-leaf-based (not bad tasting, but very slimy), or sorrel-based (fr. "oseille", another green-leaf, a little sour).Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-26. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Western Africa
- Calling code
- +226
- Internet domain
- .bf
- Land border codes
- BEN, CIV, GHA, MLI, NER, TGO
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .bf. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.