Western Africa
Flag of Burkina Faso
Cinema-loving heartland of the Sahel.
Colours, by share of the flag
- #009048 49%
- #d81818 48%
Measured from the flag artwork itself, so shares are approximate and emblems get folded into the nearest tone.
Burkina Faso in numbers
| Official name | Burkina Faso |
|---|---|
| Capital | Ouagadougou |
| Region | Western Africa, Africa |
| Population | 20,903,278 |
| Area | 272,967 km² · 77 people per km² |
| Currency | West African CFA franc (XOF) |
| Languages | French |
| Country codes | BF · BFA · .bf |
| Coastline | Landlocked |
Things worth knowing
- Its name, adopted in 1984, fuses two local languages to mean roughly the land of upright or honest people.
- The capital hosts FESPACO, the continent's biggest film festival, making this landlocked nation an unlikely hub of African cinema.
- The Sudano-Sahelian mosques here are built from mud brick studded with wooden beams that double as permanent scaffolding for annual replastering.
Did you know
Bobo-Dioulasso's Grande Mosquee is a fairy-tale cluster of earthen towers that the whole community re-coats by hand after every rainy season.
Neighbours
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Country data from the mledoze/countries dataset under ODbL 1.0. Flag artwork from the same dataset. All 196 flags.