Everything you need to know about Burkina Faso
Explore Burkina Faso from Ouagadougou and the central plateau to Bobo-Dioulasso, the southwestern sandstone landscapes and the northern Sahel. Place sixteen cities, follow rivers beyond borders, discover heritage and read ten illustrated topics.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Burkina Faso
From Sahelian north to southwestern savannas and rivers.
Know the shape of the country
Place sixteen cities and towns, then follow four rivers across borders to their available mapped ends. Lake Volta and the lower Volta show how waters continue south to the Atlantic. Zoom out and pan to see their full extent.
Heritage and landscapes of Burkina Faso
Essential · World Heritage
Ruins of Loropéni
Stone walls are associated with the regional gold trade and were inscribed by UNESCO in 2009.
Explore twelve heritage and landscape places. Pins are approximate learning locations, not routes, entrances or assurances of safe access. Essential marks starting points for learning; Detour adds geographic context. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take French with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Burkina Faso, the countries in white have a guide like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
Africa
- Algeria
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Europe
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