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Western Africa, north of Ghana .
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| Land Boudaries Border Country :
| Benin 306 km, Cote d'Ivoire 584 km, Ghana 549 km, Mali 1,000 km, Niger 628 km, Togo 126 km .
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INFORMATIONS MAPS
| Land Boudaries Total :
| 3,193 km .
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| Geographic Coordinates :
| tropical; warm, dry winters; hot, wet summers .
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| Area Total :
| 274,200 sq km .
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| Area Land :
| 273,800 sq km .
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| Area Water :
| 400 sq km .
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| Area Comparative :
| slightly larger than Colorado .
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| Coast Line :
| 0 km (landlocked) .
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| Railways Total :
| 622 km .
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| Highways Total :
| 12,506 km .
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| Waterways :
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| Ports and Harbors :
| none .
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Bobo-Dioulasso is a city of about 600,000, the second biggest in Burkina Faso after Ouagadougou, the nation's capital. The name means literally, "home of the Jula-speaking Bobo," which is the dominant ethnic group in the region of the city. The city is situated in the southwest of the country, in the Houet Province, some 350 km from Ouagadougou. It is significant both economically (agricultural trade, textile industry) and culturally (Bobo is the center of culture and music of Burkina Faso).
Jula, a trade language, is the lingua franca of Bobo and surrounding region of western Burkina Faso. It is a derivative of Bamana, a dominant language of neighboring Mali. Bobo-Dioulasso is ethnically and linguistically very diverse, due to its position as an ancient crossroads of several trans-Saharan trade routes, so most Jula speakers in the region are not actually Jula themselves.
Lying on the Hou?t River, Bobo was founded as Sya in the fifteenth century. The city was occupied by the French in 1897, after which it grew around the Abidjan–Ouagadougou railway.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
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