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BURKINA FASO The "country of honest men" has a total area of 274200km ², making it one of the landlocked country's smallest continent.
For comparison, Burkina Faso is 8 times larger than Belgium but 2 times smaller than France and 35 times smaller than Canada.
From north to south, the distance is 625 km from east to west of 850 km, which gives the territory a general form of kidney bean.
Only 30% of the area of Burkina Faso is arable. The
Bukina Faso is divided into 45 provinces, consisting of 350 departments (with a high-captain, I swear), divided into cantons (with a prefect) totaling more than 8,000 villages. Bukina Faso located in the heart of West Africa, its rich traditions forged throughout its history, with a fauna and flora, very original, Burkina Faso has a certain attraction on the thousands people who choose each year as a tourist destination.
The reasons given by visitors are business and tourist quarter of the workforce is made up of Africans (Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger), another quarter of Europeans (French, German, Dutch), the rest of Americans, Asians, and Lebanese.
Over 100,000 visitors staying in Burkina Faso each year. The tourist season is traditionally from July to August but the period from January to February is becoming more and more based on the best weather and the opening of the chase.
events such as FESPACO (Festival Ouagadougou Panafrican Film), SIAO (Salon International de l'Artisanat de Ouagadougou), SNC (National Week of Culture ).... also fall during this season and have attracted many participants including expatriates and nationals.

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Official country name: Democratic People's Republic of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) created in 1984.
Area: 274200km ² or half of France divided into 45 administrative provinces
Border countries: Cote d'Ivoire to the south west, Ghana and Togo to the south-east, and Niger and Mali to the north and the west.
Capital: Ouagadougou
Main cities: Bobo-Dioulasso, Koudougou Ouahigouya.
Quote: "Unity-Progress-Justice"
National Day: December 11 and August 5 (independence 1960)
Political system: parliamentary republic with universal suffrage.
Languages spoken: Moore (Mossi language), Jula (Dioula pronounce), Fulfulde (Fulani language) Dagara, gourmanché.
religions: Animism (25%), Islam (55%) and Christianity (20%).
Total Population: estimated at 13 million inhabitants in 2005
Density: 44 inhabitants / km ².