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Burkina Faso. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (1464 words) |
 | Burkina Faso is one of the poorest nations in the world, with the great majority of its workers engaged in subsistence farming. |
| Burkina Faso has a small mining industry that produces manganese, phosphates, and gold-bearing quartz; there are also small, and as yet largely untapped, deposits of antimony, copper, zinc, nickel, lead, bauxite, and uranium. |
| Invaders from present-day Ghana conquered central and E Burkina Faso, establishing the Mossi states of Ouagadougou, Yatenga, and Tengkodogo in the center and the state of Gourma in the east. |
| Burkina in Depth (2339 words) |
| Burkina Faso is a landlocked country of 105,869 square miles, located in the heart of Western Africa, approximately 600 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. |
| The tropical weather in Burkina Faso is divided into two seasons: the dry season from November to May (with a cool and dry period from November to February, and hot weather from March to May), and the rainy season from June to October. |
| Four parties (of the approximately 60 in Burkina Faso) are represented in the National Assembly after the legislative elections of May 1997: the CDP, the PDP, the ADF and the RDA. |
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