Western Africa
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Core facts
- Capital
- Ouagadougou
- Population
- 24,070,553
- Area
- 272,967 km^2
- Country code
- BFA
- Flag emoji
- 🇧🇫
- UN member
- Yes
- Independent
- Yes
- Population density
- 88.2 per km^2
- Calling code
- +226
Culture and society
- Languages
- French
- Religions
- Christianity (49.0%), Islam (42.0%), Folk religions (6.0%), Unaffiliated (2.0%), Other religions (100.0%)
- Native names
- Burkina Faso
- Demonyms (EN)
- Burkinabe / Burkinabe
- Start of week
- monday
- Driving side
- right
- Timezones
- UTC
- Alternative spellings
- BF
Geography and map
- Continents
- Africa
- Coordinates
- 13.00, -2.00
- Landlocked
- Yes
- Borders
- BEN, CIV, GHA, MLI, NER, TGO
- Border countries count
- 6
Economy and identity
- Currencies
- West African CFA franc (Fr)
- Top-level domain
- .bf
- FIFA code
- BFA
- Capital coordinates
- 12.37, -1.52
- Postal code format
- N/A
- Gini index
- 35.3 (2014)
- Coat of arms
