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Continent: Western and Northern Africa

Capital: Ouagadougou

Area: 273,800 km²

Population: 20,107,509

Former Name: Upper Volta

Neighbouring Countries: ↙ Cote d’Ivoire , ↑ Mali , → Niger , ↘ Benin , ↓ Togo , ↓ Ghana

Religions: Muslim 61.5%, Roman Catholic 23.3%, traditional/animist 7.8%, Protestant 6.5%, other/no answer 0.2%, none 0.7%

Languages: French (official), native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population

Ethnic Groups: Mossi 52%, Fulani 8.4%, Gurma 7%, Bobo 4.9%, Gurunsi 4.6%, Senufo 4.5%, Bissa 3.7%, Lobi 2.4%, Dagara 2.4%, Tuareg/Bella 1.9%, Dioula 0.8%, unspecified/no answer 0.3%, other 7.2%

Motto: Unité, Progrès, Justice (French) (Unity, Progress, Justice)

Area: 274,200 km²

Catholic Population: 3,742,000 Catholics (16.0% of 23,422,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 226 parishes, 899 mission stations (without resident priest), 434 other centres

Clergy: 22 bishops (14 diocesan, 8 titular), 1,340 priests (954 diocesan, 386 religious)

Non-Clergy: 1,893 religious (245 brothers, 1,648 sisters), 34 members of secular institutes (sisters), 869 major seminarians, 14 missionaries, 4,276 catechists