Map of Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 13.0° N, 2.0° W. Burkina Faso is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 6 neighbours — Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Togo — with no coastline of its own. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Burkina Faso is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Burkina Faso is surrounded by the following 6 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Burkina Faso covers about 272,967 km² (105,393 sq mi). That makes it the 74th-largest country in the world by area and the 29th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 25 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 24,070,553, the 58th-largest in the world and the 19th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 1.6% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Burkina Faso has an average population density of about 88 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 19th by population and 29th by area.

The seat of government is Ouagadougou, and the official currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, Fr), and the main official language is French. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC.

Burkina Faso carries the ISO country codes BF and BFA, dials on the international calling code +226 and uses the .bf internet domain.

Burkina Faso shares its land borders with 6 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Ghana (capital Accra, about 33,742,380 people), Cote d'Ivoire (capital Yamoussoukro, about 31,719,275 people), Niger (capital Niamey, about 26,312,034 people), Mali (capital Bamako, about 22,395,489 people), Benin (capital Porto-Novo, about 13,224,860 people) and Togo (capital Lomé, about 8,095,498 people).

By area, Burkina Faso is larger than 3 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 13.0° N, 2.0° W and opens at zoom level 6, framing Burkina Faso within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Ouagadougou. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Burkina Faso lies about 1,443 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Burkina Faso keeps a single standard time zone, UTC. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +00:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, Fr).

The official language is French, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +226 and websites commonly use the .bf internet domain.

In short, Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in Africa, sharing land borders with 6 countries. Its capital is Ouagadougou. Burkina Faso has a population of about 24,070,553 and covers around 272,967 km² (105,393 sq mi), ranking it 58th in the world by population and 74th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Burkina Faso.

The flag of Burkina Faso features two equal horizontal bands of red and green, with a yellow five-pointed star in the center.

The flag of Burkina Faso is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.