!!!Burkina Faso: Geography
||Location|Western Africa, north of Ghana
||Geographic Coordinates|13 00 N, 2 00 W[{GoogleMap location='13.0,-2.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''274,200 sq km\\''land: ''273,800 sq km\\''water: ''400 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 274200\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 274199\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 274200\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 274200\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 270764\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 274200''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''3,193 km\\''border countries: ''Benin 306 km, Cote d'Ivoire 584 km, Ghana 549 km, Mali 1,000 km, Niger 628 km, Togo 126 km
||Coastline|0 km (landlocked)
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Mouhoun (Black Volta) River 200 m\\''highest point: ''Tena Kourou 749 m
||Highest Mountains|
||Terrain|mostly flat to dissected, undulating plains; hills in west and southeast
||Natural Hazards|recurring droughts
||Natural Resource|manganese, limestone, marble; small deposits of gold, phosphates, pumice, salt
||Land Use|''arable land: ''20.79%\\''permanent crops: ''0.24%\\''other: ''78.98% (2011)
||Climate|tropical; warm, dry winters; hot, wet summers
||Irrigated Land|250 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|12.5 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|recent droughts and desertification severely affecting agricultural activities, population distribution, and the economy; overgrazing; soil degradation; deforestation
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Ouagadougou; Bobo Dioulasso; Koudougou; Banfora; Ouahigouya\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Ouagadougou; Bobo-Dioulasso; Koudougou; Ouahigouya; Banfora\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/Africa/Burkina_Faso/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|landlocked savanna cut by the three principal rivers of the Black, Red, and White Voltas