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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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Map Ouagadougou 1960,
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Population on 10-Dec-96 : 709736
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Ouagadougou (WAH-GAH-doo-goo) is the capital of Burkina Faso. It is the country's largest city, with a population of 960,116 (2000) and is the communications, cultural and economic centre as well as the administrative centre. Its name is often shortened to Ouaga.
The city is roughly in the centre of the country (12.4? N 1.5? W). Its primary industries are food processing and textiles. Ougadougou is served by an international airport, rail links to Abidjan in C?te d'Ivoire and to Kaya in the north of Burkina, and a highway to Niamey, Niger.
The University of Ouagadougou, founded in 1974, was the country's first institution of higher education.
The city has few major modern buildings, excepting the headquarters of the West African Central Bank, and the old Ouagadougou Central Mosque remains one of the tallest and most significant buildings. The city hosts the annual FESPACO African film festival. In part as a result, there are many cinemas, alongside nightclubs and French, American and Zaka cultural centres. There is also the biennial SIAO craft festival, which claims to be the largest in Africa.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
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