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Burkina Faso (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 13 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 13.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 002 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -2.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Earliest known inhabitants of area were Bobo, Lobi, and Gourounsi; Mossi and Gourma immigrated in the 14th century; Mossi established a large empire 18th-19th centuries; French colony was established in 20th century; area was partitioned 1932-1947, then reconstituted; official language is French, though many speak local languages of the Sudanic group, including Moré, Dioula, and Gourmantche. |
Names: |
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| Burkina (preferred,C,V,Slovak)
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............ | National Official name |
| Burkina (French-P,U)
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| Burkina Faso (C,V,O,English-P,U,N)
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............ | UN Official name |
| Burkina Faso (Tagalog)
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| Burkina Faso (Sangho)
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| Burkina Faso (Maltese)
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| Burkina Faso (Vietnamese)
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| Burkina Faso (Ilocano)
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| Burkina Faso (Indonesian)
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| Burkina Faso (Azerbaijani)
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| Burkina Faso (Croatian)
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| Burkina Faso (Bosnian)
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| Burkina Faso (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Burkina Faso (Danish)
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| Burkina Faso (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Burkina Faso (Finnish)
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| Burkina Faso (Swedish)
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| Burkina Faso (Polish)
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| Burkina Faso (Portuguese)
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| Burkina Faso (Romanian)
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| Burkina Faso (Slovak)
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| Burkina Faso (Slovene)
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| Burkina Faso (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Burkina Faso (Catalan)
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| Burkina Faso (Basque)
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| Burkina Faso (Aragonese)
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| Burkina Faso (Welsh)
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| Burkina Faso (Hausa)
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| Burkina Faso (German)
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| Burkina Faso (Low German)
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| Burkina Faso (Albanian)
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| Burkina Faso (Breton)
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| Burkina Faso (Cornish)
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| Burkina Faso (Czech)
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| Burkina Faso (Dutch)
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| Burkina Faso (Afrikaans)
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| Burkina Faso (French,U,N)
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| Burkina Faso (Galician)
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| Burkina Faso (Faroese)
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| Burkina Faso (Italian)
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| Burkina Faso (Estonian)
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| Burkina Faso (Greenlandic)
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| Burkina Faso (Turkish)
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| Burkina Faso (Occitan)
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| Burkina Faso (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Burkina Faso (Romansh)
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| Burkina Faso (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Burkina Faso (Norwegian)
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| Burkina Faso (Pampanga)
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| Burkina Faso (Northern Sami)
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| Burkina Faso (Swahili (generic))
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| Burkina Faso (Ido)
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| Burkina Faso (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Burkina Faso (Limburgan)
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| Burkina Fasso (C,V,English,U,N)
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| Burkina Fasso (Portuguese)
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| Burkina Fasso (Romanian)
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| Буркина-Фасо (C,V,Bashkir)
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| Буркина-Фасо (Chechen)
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| Буркина-Фасо (Kyrgyz)
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| Буркина-Фасо (Russian-P,U)
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| 布基纳法索 (C,V,Chinese-P,U)
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| بوره يَا فاسو (C,V,Arabic-P,U)
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| BFA (C,O,ISO3L)
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| BF (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO854 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| UV (C,O,FIPS)
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| Burkinabe (C,O,English,U,A)
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| בורקינה פאסו (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Bhukina Faso (C,U,North Ndebele)
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| Bɔkina Faso (C,U,Akan)
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| Boerkina Faso (C,U,Western Frisian)
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| Boerkina Fasso (C,U,Afrikaans)
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| Borkėna Fasos (C,U,Samogitian)
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| Borkina Faso (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Borkinn-a Fäso (C,U,Ligurian)
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| Boukinafaso (C,U,Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Buircíne Fasó (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Buirciona Faso (C,U,Scots Gaelic)
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| Bukinafaso (C,U,Kikuyu)
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| Bukinafaso (Luba-Katanga)
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| Bukinafaso (Shona)
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| Bukinafaso (Swahili (generic))
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| Bukina Faso (C,U,Lingala)
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| Buốc-ki-na Pha-xô (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Buốc-ki-na Pha-xô (Burkina Faso) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Burakina Faso (C,U,Hawaiian)
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| Burchina Fasu (C,U,Sicilian)
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| Burcina Faso (C,U,Latin)
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| Burkibaa Faaso (C,U,Fulah)
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| Burkiina Faaso (C,U,Somali)
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| Burkinaa Faaso (C,U,Wolof)
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| Burkinaa Faasoo (C,U,Oromo)
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| Burkinabato (C,U,Nauruan)
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| Burkina Fasas (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Burkinafaso (C,U,Latvian)
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| Búrkína Fasó (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Burkîna Faso (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Burkina-Faso (C,U,Turkmen)
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| Burkina-Faso (Azerbaijani)
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| Burkina Fasô (C,U,Arpitan)
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| Burkina faso (C,U,Hausa)
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| Bùrkínà Fasò (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Burkína Fasó (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Burkina Faso nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Burkina Fasso (Alto Volta) (C,U,Spanish)
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| Burkina Fasu (C,U,Asturian)
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| Burkinän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Burkina Paso (C,U,Banjar)
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| Burkina Phasu (C,U,Quechuan)
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| Burkino (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Burquina Faso (C,U,Nahuatl)
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| Burquina Faso (Portuguese)
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| Burquina Faso (Galician)
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| Burquina Fasu (C,U,Extremaduran)
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| Burukina Faso (C,U,Rundi)
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| Burukina Faso (Rwanda)
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| Burukina Faso (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Burukina Faso (Bambara)
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| Bwrcina Ffaso (C,U,Welsh)
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| IBhukhina-Faso (C,U,Swati (Swazi))
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| IBukhina Faso (C,U,Zulu)
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| i-Burkina Faso (C,U,Zulu)
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| Orílẹ́ède Bùùkíná Fasò (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Pekano Faso (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Republic of Upper Volta (C,U)
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| République Voltaïque (C,U)
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| Volta Republic (C,U)
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| Volta Superior (C,U)
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| বুর্কিনা ফাসো (C,U,Bengali)
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| বুর্কিনা ফাসো (Bishnupriya Manipuri)
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| بورکینا فاسو (C,U,Pashto)
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| بورکینا فاسو (Persian-Farsi)
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| Буркина Фасо (C,U,Tatar)
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| Буркина Фасо (Tajik)
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| Буркина Фасо (Chuvash)
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| Буркина Фасо (Serbian)
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| Буркина Фасо (Macedonian)
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| Буркина Фасо (Mongolian)
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| Буркина Фасо (Kazakh)
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| Буркина Фасо (Bulgarian)
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| Буркина Фасо (Russian)
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| Буркина Фасо (Ossetian/Ossetic)
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| Буркина Фасо (Yakut)
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| Буркина Фасо (Western Mari)
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| बुर्किना फासो (C,U,Marathi)
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| बुर्किना फासो (Hindi)
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| बुर्किना फासो (Nepali)
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| बुर्किना फासो (Bihari languages)
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| बुर्किना फासो (Newari)
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| 布吉納法索 (C,U,Chinese)
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| بورکینافاسو (C,U,Mazanderani)
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| بورکینافاسو (Persian-Farsi)
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| بورکینافاسو (Northern Luri)
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| Μπουρκίνα Φάσο (C,U,Greek)
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| புர்க்கினா பாசோ (C,U,Tamil)
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| Буркіна-Фасо (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Буркіна-Фасо (Belarusian)
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| ബർക്കിനാ ഫാസോ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| बर्किना फासो (C,U,Marathi)
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| बर्किना फासो (Hindi)
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| बर्किना फासो (Nepali)
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| बुर्कीना-फासो (C,U,Sanskrit)
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| बुर्कीना-फासो (Kashmiri)
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| बुर्कीना-फासो (Pali)
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| برکینا فاسو (C,U,Panjabi, Western)
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| برکینا فاسو (Urdu)
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| بورکینافاسۆ (C,U,Kurdish)
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| بورکینافاسۆ (Central Kurdish)
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| ブルキナファソ (C,U,Japanese)
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| Буркинапасин Орн (C,U,Kalmyk)
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| ბურკინა-ფასო (C,U,Mingrelian)
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| ბურკინა-ფასო (Georgian)
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| Буркіна Фасо (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Буркіна Фасо (Rusyn, Ukrainian (language group))
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| బర్కీనా ఫాసో (C,U,Telugu)
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| 布基納法索 (C,U,Chinese, Yue)
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| ބުރުކީނާ ފާސޯ (C,U,Maldivian (Divehi))
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| ເບີກິນາຟາໂຊ (C,U,Lao)
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| بۇركىنا فاسو (C,U,Uyghur)
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| ବୁରକିନା ଫାସୋ (C,U,Odia)
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| بوركينا فاسو (C,U,Arabic, Egyptian)
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| بوركينا فاسو (Arabic)
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| ប៊ូរគីណាហ្វាសូ (C,U,Khmer)
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| ბურკინა ფასო (C,U,Georgian)
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| Բուրկինա Ֆասո (C,U,Armenian)
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| ಬುರ್ಕೀನ ಫಾಸೊ (C,U,Kannada)
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| ቡርኪና ፋሶ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ቡርኪና ፋሶ (Amharic)
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| ประเทศบูร์กินาฟาโซ (C,U,Thai)
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| བུར་ཀི་ན་ཕ་སོ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| ਬੁਰਕੀਨਾ ਫ਼ਾਸੋ (C,U,Panjabi, Eastern)
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| 부르키나파소 (C,U,Korean)
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| บูร์กินาฟาโซ (C,U,Thai)
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| ဘာကီးနားဖားဆိုနိုင်ငံ (C,U,Burmese)
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| Буркино-Фасо (C,U,Russia Buriat)
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| בורקינע פאסא (C,U,Yiddish)
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| 부르키나 파소 (C,U,Korean)
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| બુર્કિના ફાસો (C,U,Gujarati)
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| බර්කිනා ෆාසෝ (C,U,Sinhala)
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| बुर्किना फ़ासो (C,U,Hindi)
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| বুরকিনা ফাসো (C,U,Bengali)
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| புர்கினா ஃபாஸோ (C,U,Tamil)
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| བརཀི་ན། ཕསོ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| బుర్కినా ఫాసో (C,U,Telugu)
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| ಬುರ್ಕಿನಾ ಫಾಸೋ (C,U,Kannada)
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| ବୁର୍କିନୋ ଫାସୋ (C,U,Odia)
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| ബുര്ക്കിനാ ഫാസോ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| Haute-Volta (H,V)
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| République de Haute-Volta (H,V)
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| Upper Volta (H,O)
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| Voltaic Republic (H,O)
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence 1960 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| military regime (C) |
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established October 15, 1987 |
| republic (B) |
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within French Community, 1958; independently, from 1960 |
| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| territory (H) |
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French Union, 1947-1958 |
| colony (H) |
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separate, 1919-1932 |
| protectorate (H) |
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French, 1895-1897 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Ouagadougou .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Africa, Burkina Faso, Centre) [7000491] |
| historical connection .... |
Kong Empire .......... (former nation/state/empire) |
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(World, Africa) [8698192] |
| member of .... |
French West Africa .......... (federation) |
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(World, Africa) [6002142] |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1960 |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Buốc-ki-na Pha-xô (Burkina Faso).......... |
[VP] |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 2361809 |
| Burkina Fasso (Alto Volta).......... |
[VP] |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 2361809 |
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