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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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Population on 10-Dec-96 : 52193
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Ouahigouya is the most important town in northern Burkina Faso. It is situated 182km north-west of Ouagadougou. The city was founded in 1757 as the capital of Yatenga, but was destroyed in 1825 and repeatedly attacked from the 1870s to the 1890s, until the French began rebuilding around a fort from 1896.
In the Christmas War of 1985, the city's marketplace was bombed by Malian forces, almost 100 people being killed.
Features of Ouahigouya include Kaba Kango's tomb, the Yatenga Naba's compound and an artificial lake.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
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