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 Ouagadougou—2,415,266, 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: capital of Burkina Faso.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Ouagadougou is GeoNames ID 2357048. Its recorded administrative path is Kadiogo Province → Centre → Burkina Faso, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Ouagadougou 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 2025-06-20; 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, Ouagadougou ranks 157 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Burkina Faso entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 31. Its 2,415,266 population value is 1.45 times the 1,660,093 median for the country cohort and 2.68 times the 902,588 regional median. Ouagadougou is rank 1 among the 2 selected Burkina Faso entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Ouagadougou's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Ouagadougou's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bobo-Dioulasso at 328.161 km with 904,920 recorded people; Niamey at 414.981 km with 1,323,691 recorded people; Kumasi at 631.352 km with 2,544,530 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 303.191 km. Compared with Bobo-Dioulasso, Ouagadougou's recorded population is 2.67 times as large. Against Ouagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso follows Province du Houet → Hauts-Bassins → Burkina Faso in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Burkina Faso cohort, uses the shared Africa/Ouagadougou identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Ouagadougou's. Against Ouagadougou, Niamey follows Niamey → Niger in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Niger cohort rather than Burkina Faso, uses Africa/Niamey instead of Africa/Ouagadougou, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Ouagadougou's. Against Ouagadougou, Kumasi follows Kumasi → Ashanti → Ghana in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Ghana cohort rather than Burkina Faso, uses Africa/Accra instead of Africa/Ouagadougou, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Ouagadougou's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,126 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ouagadougou'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 2357048, the coordinate pair 12.3657 / 1.5339, country rank 1 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 2362344 at 328.161 km bind Ouagadougou to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ouagadougou's reference point is 12.3657° north and 1.5339° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Ouagadougou is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Ouagadougou's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Ouagadougou's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ouagadougou's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Ouagadougou, 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
Ouagadougou's closest other entries in this atlas are Bobo-Dioulasso (328.161 km), Niamey (414.981 km), Kumasi (631.352 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-06-20; 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.