Burkina Faso
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Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- BF
- ISO alpha-3
- BFA
- ISO numeric
- 854
- FIPS 10-4
- UV
- GeoNames ID
- 2361809
Key facts
- Capital
- Ouagadougou
- Area
- 274,200 km²
- Population
- 19,751,535
- Currency
- Franc (XOF)
- Calling code
- +226
- Top-level domain
- .bf
- Official languages
- fr-BF,mos
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 12.5
- Longitude
- -1.66667
- Min latitude
- 9.391882629000108
- Min longitude
- -5.5225780849998785
- Max latitude
- 15.079907532000092
- Max longitude
- 2.3901689040000917
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/BF?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 274200,
"capital": "Ouagadougou",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "XOF",
"iso3_code": "BFA",
"iso_code": "BF",
"name": "Burkina Faso",
"population": 19751535
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/BF/regions/v1/cities?country=BF/v1/postal-codes?country=BF/v1/timezones?country=BF
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- بوركينا فاسو
- Chinese
- 布基纳法索
- English
- Burkina Faso
- French
- Burkina Faso
- German
- Burkina Faso
- Hindi
- बुर्किना फ़ासो
- Italian
- Burkina Faso
- Japanese
- ブルキナファソ
- Korean
- 부르키나파소
- Portuguese
- Burquina Faso
- Russian
- Буркина-Фасо
- Spanish
- Burkina Faso
- Total language variants
- 171
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Ouagadougou | UTC+00:00 | UTC+00:00 |
First-level administrative regions
- Centre
- High-Basins Region
- Est
- Boucle du Mouhoun Region
- Centre-Nord
- Nord
- Centre-Ouest
- Centre-Est
- Sahel
- Plateau-Central
- Southwest Region
- Cascades Region
- Centre-Sud
13 of 13 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Ouagadougou | 2,415,266 |
| Bobo-Dioulasso | 904,920 |
| Koudougou | 160,239 |
| Saaba | 136,011 |
| Ouahigouya | 124,587 |
| Kaya | 121,970 |
| Banfora | 117,452 |
| Pouytenga | 96,469 |
| Houndé | 87,151 |
| Fada N'gourma | 73,200 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 10,365
- First-level regions
- 13
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 171
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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