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Burkina Faso: 13 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 13 first-level units down to ADM3, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-BFA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO BFA / BFStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
13
first-level units
409
units at 3 levels
24,409,588
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

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Burkina Faso by province, state and territory

13 first-level units and 45 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 13 first-level units of Burkina Faso
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
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Every administrative level of Burkina Faso

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
13 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · each with its own page
ADM2
45 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · each with its own page
ADM3
351 third-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Public Domain · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
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All 13 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Boucle du Mouhoun BF-01 2,059,956 2,144,753 34,679 59 8.4% 0
Cascades BF-02 1,226,506 963,625 18,648 66 5% 0
Centre BF-03 4,036,274 3,832,137 2,881 1,401 16.5% 0
Centre-Est BF-04 1,879,775 1,834,268 14,757 127 7.7% 0
Centre-Nord BF-05 1,852,959 2,182,531 19,746 94 7.6% 0
Centre-Ouest BF-06 1,803,271 1,840,564 21,913 82 7.4% 0
Centre-Sud BF-07 903,400 852,902 11,555 78 3.7% 0
Est BF-08 2,263,223 2,308,270 46,741 48 9.3% 0
Hauts-Bassins BF-09 3,093,525 2,663,948 25,722 120 12.7% 0
Nord BF-10 1,700,884 1,993,603 16,468 103 7% 0
Plateau Central BF-11 985,512 1,101,541 8,635 114 4% 0
Sahel BF-12 1,647,492 1,145,453 36,289 45 6.7% 0
Sud-Ouest BF-13 956,811 1,009,428 16,402 58 3.9% 0
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Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Burkina Faso publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
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Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BFA ADM1, source: World Bank, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2017
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BFA ADM2, source: World Bank, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2017
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BFA ADM3, source: New York University Spatial Data Repository, Stanford University, Map Maker Limited, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2007
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
দেশ
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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