Seasonal Burkinabe farm workers to find employment in neighboring countries.
In poor economic prospects for the majority of its citizens.Ĭote d'Ivoire and northern Ghana has hindered the ability of several hundred thousand Burkina Faso's high population density and limited natural resources result Repeated military coupsĭuring the 1970s and 1980s were followed by multiparty elections in the earlyġ990s. Spoken languages are French (official), and several native languages of the Niger–Congo family like Mossi, Fulani and Dioula, spoken by about 90% of the Burkinabe population.īurkina Faso achieved independence from France in 1960. state of Colorado.īurkina Faso has a population of 19 million (in 2016) capital and largest city is Ouagadougou. Burkina covers an area of 274,222 km², this is about three times the size of Austria, or slightly larger than the U.S. The country sits on an extensive plateau, it is bordered by Mali in north and north west, by Niger in north east, by Benin in south east and by Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Togo in south. Burkina's landscape offers one major scenario, flat, with some rocky cliffs in Centre-Nord region and at the Banfora Escarpment arround Bobo-Dioulasso, the country's second largest city. Of West Africa's "hump." The northern part lies geographically in the Sahel zone, the transition zone between the Sahara Desert in north and the tropical savanna in south. Burkina Faso (formerly known as Upper Volta French: Haute Volta) is a landlocked country located in the middle A virtual guide to Burkina Faso, the 'land of the upright/honest people'.
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