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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: 3,494,000 Catholics (15.7% of 22,186,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 216 parishes, 900 mission stations (1 with resident priest, 899 without resident priest), 562 other centres

Clergy: 23 bishops (14 diocesan, 9 titular), 1,288 priests (939 diocesan, 349 religious), 2 permanent deacons (religious)

Non-Clergy: 1,793 religious (212 brothers, 1,581 sisters), 26 members of secular institutes (sisters), 808 major seminarians, 3 missionaries, 3,729 catechists