Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso
Banner Coat o airms
Motto: "Unité–Progrès–Justice" (French) "Unity–Progress–Juistice"
Anthem: Une Seule Nuit / Ditanyè  (French) Ane Single Nicht / Hime o Veectory
Location o  Burkina Faso  (daurk blue) – in Africae  (licht blue & daurk gray) – in the African Union  (licht blue)  —  [Legend]
Caipital and largest city	Ouagadougou 12°20′N 1°40′W
Offeecial leids	French
Recognised naitional leids	Mòoré Fulani Dioula
Ethnic groups (1995)	47.9% Mossi 10.3% Fula 6.9% Lobi 6.9% Bobo 6.7% Mandé 5.3% Senufo 5.0% Gurunsi 4.8% Gurma 3.1% Tuareg
Demonym(s)	Burkinabé Burkinabè Burkinabe
Govrenment	Unitar semi-presidential republic
• Preses	Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba
• MPSR Preses	Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba
• MPSR Vice Preses	Sidsoré Kader Ouédraogo
• Prime Meenister	Albert Ouédraogo
Legislatur	Naitional Assembly
Unthirldom
• frae Fraunce	5 August 1960
Aurie
• Total	274,200 km2 (105,900 sq mi) (74th)
• Water (%)	0.146%
Population
• 2020 estimate	21,510,181 (58th)
• 2006 census	14,017,262
• Density	64/km2 (165.8/sq mi) (137th)
GDP (PPP)	2020 estimate
• Total	$45.339 billion
• Per capita	$2,207
GDP (nominal)	2020 estimate
• Tot	$16.226 billion
• Per capita	$792
Gini (2020)	38.9 medium
HDI (2019)	0.452 law · 182nd
Currency	Wast African CFA franc (XOF)
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)
Drivin side	right
Cawin code	+226
ISO 3166 code	BF
Internet TLD	.bf
The data here is an estimation for the year 2005 produced by the International Monetary Fund in April 2005.

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Burkina Faso (/bərˌkiːnə ˈfɑːsoʊ/ ( listen) bər-KEE-nə FAH-soh; French: [byʁkina faso]) – an aa kent bi its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked kintra in Wast Africae. It is surroondit bi sax kintras: Mali tae the north, Niger tae the east, Benin tae the sootheast, Togo an Ghana tae the sooth, an Côte d'Ivoire tae the soothwast.

Its size is 274,200 square kilometres (105,900 sq mi) wi an estimatit population o mair nor 15,757,000. Umwhile cawed the Republic o Upper Volta, it wis renamed on August 4, 1984, bi Preses Thomas Sankara tae mean "the land o upricht fowk" in Mòoré an Dioula, the major native leids o the kintra. Figuratively, "Burkina" mey be translatit, "men o integrity," frae the Mòoré leid, an "Faso" means "faither's hoose" in Dioula. The inhabitants o Burkina Faso are kent as Burkinabè (pronounced /bərˈkiːnəbeɪ/ ^{(deprecatit template)} bər-KEE-nə-bay).

Burkina Faso wis populatit early, atween 14,000 an 5000 BC, bi hunter-gatherers in the northwastren pairt o the kintra. Settlements wi farmers appeared atween 3600 an 2600 BC. The central pairt o Burkina Faso includit a number o Mossi kinricks, which became a French protectorate in 1896. Efter gainin independence frae Fraunce in 1960, the kintra unnerwent mony governmental chynges till arrivin at its current form, a semi-presidential republic. The current preses is Blaise Compaoré.

Burkina Faso's caipital is Ouagadougou. It is a member o the African Union, Community o Sahel-Saharan States, La Francophonie, Organization o the Islamic Conference an Economic Community o Wast African States.