Burkina Faso

The country calling code for Burkina Faso is +226. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Burkina Faso number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Burkina Faso is assigned BF as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and BFA as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Burkina Faso is .bf. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Burkina Faso is the West African CFA franc, with the ISO 4217 code XOF and the symbol Fr. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Burkina Faso are quoted in XOF. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Burkina Faso is UTC, currently UTC+00:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Burkina Faso is Ouagadougou. Burkina Faso sits in Africa, specifically the Western Africa subregion. Its approximate centre point is 13.00000000, -2.00000000. Traffic in Burkina Faso drives on the right. Languages recorded for Burkina Faso: French, Fula.

Burkina Faso shares a land border with 6 countries: Benin, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Togo. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.