Burkina Faso: All Data

This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.

Is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and the Ivory Coast to the southwest. It gained its independence from France in 1960 as the Republic of Upper Volta and changed name into its actual denomination in 1984.