Burkina Faso (French: Burkina Faso), located in western Africa. The capital Ouagadougou has a land area of 274,000 square kilometers and a population of 20.3 million.
1.Bu The name of this country comes from its national language, meaning "the country of gentlemen".
2.BuKina Faso country is poor and has a large population. In order to survive, many people in Kena Faso go abroad to work, so BuKina Faso has also become the main source of migrant workers in West Africa countries.
3.BuKina Faso is one of the typical representatives of getting better and better. The current fertility rate has reached 5.1, ranking among the forefront of the world.
4.Bu Most areas of the entire territory of Kena Faso are plateaus, but the average altitude is not high, only about 300 meters, and the terrain is flat, with the highest peak in the country being only 749 meters above sea level.
5.BuKina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world, with nearly 80% of the country's labor force engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. However, because the country is located on the edge of the desert, the land is flat and cannot retain water vapor, so the arable land is scarce and water-deficient, which is very barren.
6. Burkina Faso is a multiethnic country dominated by black people. It is mainly divided into two ethnic groups: Walter and Mandei, of which the Walter family accounts for about 60% of the total population.
7. In terms of religious beliefs, 50% of the people in Burkina Faso believe in primitive religions, while others believe in Islam or Christianity.
8. Burkina Faso has rich gold reserves and is a major gold producer in Africa, with an annual output of 32 tons. In addition to gold, Burkina Faso also has phosphate ore, limestone ore, manganese ore , etc. It is also a country with rich mineral resources, but its development and utilization level is not high, so it cannot become a new economic growth point.
9. Although most people in Burkina Faso are engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry, the production method is still very primitive, and many places live primitive tribal life with slash-and-burn farming.
10. I personally think that national emblem of Burkina Faso is one of the most beautiful ones among the countries in the world. The national emblem is a shield emblem, with two crossed spears, and two white horses on both sides guarding it.
11. China and Burkina Faso first established diplomatic relations in 1973, but in 1994, the Burkina Faso government was captured by the sugar-coated shells of Wanwan and signed a communiqué of "renewals" with the Wanwan authorities. Then China announced the suspension of diplomatic relations with it. It was not until 2018 that Burkina Faso finally realized that China had re-established diplomatic relations with it.
12. The roads in Burkina Faso are full of loess, and travel is not easy. So the main means of transportation there are motorcycles and donkey carts.
13. There is a former president of Burkina Faso called Sankara. He turned Women's Day on March 8 into a public holiday in Burkina Faso and ordered all husbands across the country to buy food and cook for his wife at least once a year.
14. Although Burkina Faso's economy is not well developed, its film career ranks among the best in Africa. The " Ouagadougou Pan African Film Festival " is one of the largest film festivals in Africa.
15. It is said that is one of the most friendly countries to the Chinese in Africa. There are basically no one around the Chinese to ask for money except beggars.
16. Burkina Faso water resources are abnormally lacking, and rivers often dry up. Coupled with the impact of poverty, tens of thousands of people even share a well. So there is a habit of storing water there. Every household uses mud tanks to store water. Whoever has more mud tanks means who is richer.
17. It is a joy to rain there. If a child is born and rained, the people there will feel that the child is born lucky and favored by God. Therefore, the child is generally named Patwa, which means rain.
18. Don’t think that only Chinese people like to worship God and pray for rain. has also built some rain-praying statues in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. From time to time, people go there to pray for rain.
19. There is a crocodile in Burkina Faso that they can walk upright like humans.
20. Burkina Faso architectural style is very unique. They like to arrange wood to make beams, but the building does not surround the wood, but the wood extends out, especially the mosques over there, which look like maces.
21. More than 60% of the cocoa in the world comes from West Africa. In order to make up for the shortage of labor and reduce wage expenses, traffickers will abduct children of a few years old to plantations to engage in plantations. People call these abducted children "coco slaves". Burkina Faso is the main source country of cocoa slaves. (As long as you don't pay, it's not called illegal child labor [petrochemical])
22. Burkina Faso is the country with the lowest literacy rate of in the world confirmed by the United Nations. Most people in the country can't even write their own names.
23. Urbanization construction in Burkina Faso is slow, and now about 90% of people live in rural areas. Many places are in charge of the chief, and the chief takes over the local power.
24. In recent years, Burkina Faso terrorist attacks have occurred frequently, and social unrest has caused 300,000 students across the country to lose school.
25. Poor and hardship in the people, it is really a "country of gentlemen".
26. You are not allowed to look back. Can you still remember the name of this country?
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