1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Burkina Faso
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Bobo-Dioulasso—904,920, Africa/Ouagadougou, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: town in Burkina Faso.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bobo-Dioulasso is GeoNames ID 2362344. Its recorded administrative path is Province du Houet → Hauts-Bassins → Burkina Faso, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Bobo-Dioulasso occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-13; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Bobo-Dioulasso ranks 613 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Burkina Faso entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 121. Its 904,920 population value is 0.55 times the 1,660,093 median for the country cohort and 1.00 times the 902,588 regional median. Bobo-Dioulasso is rank 2 among the 2 selected Burkina Faso entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Bobo-Dioulasso's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Bobo-Dioulasso's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ouagadougou at 328.161 km with 2,415,266 recorded people; Bouaké at 396.014 km with 832,371 recorded people; Bamako at 430.786 km with 4,227,569 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 102.625 km. Compared with Ouagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso's recorded population is 0.37 times as large. Against Bobo-Dioulasso, Ouagadougou follows Kadiogo Province → Centre → Burkina Faso in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Burkina Faso cohort, uses the shared Africa/Ouagadougou identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Bobo-Dioulasso's. Against Bobo-Dioulasso, Bouaké follows Vallee du Bandama District → Côte d’Ivoire in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Côte d’Ivoire cohort rather than Burkina Faso, uses Africa/Abidjan instead of Africa/Ouagadougou, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Bobo-Dioulasso's. Against Bobo-Dioulasso, Bamako follows Bamako → Mali in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Mali cohort rather than Burkina Faso, uses Africa/Bamako instead of Africa/Ouagadougou, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Bobo-Dioulasso's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,126 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bobo-Dioulasso's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 2362344, the coordinate pair 11.1806 / 4.2949, country rank 2 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 2357048 at 328.161 km bind Bobo-Dioulasso to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bobo-Dioulasso's reference point is 11.1806° north and 4.2949° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Ouagadougou is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Bobo-Dioulasso's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Bobo-Dioulasso's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bobo-Dioulasso's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bobo-Dioulasso, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Bobo-Dioulasso's closest other entries in this atlas are Ouagadougou (328.161 km), Bouaké (396.014 km), Bamako (430.786 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.