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Burkina

Burkina is the ellipsis of Burkina Faso.

Meaning of Burkina Faso

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

  1. A country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta. Official name: Burkina Faso.
    • In its 2013 sustainability report, Facebook stated its data centers used 986 million kilowatt-hours of electricity—around the same amount consumed by Burkina Faso in 2012.2015 December 16, Ingrid Burrington, “The Environmental Toll of a Netflix Binge”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2016

Phrases with Burkina

Questions about Burkina

What is Burkina the ellipsis of?
Burkina is the ellipsis of Burkina Faso.

Words near Burkina in the dictionary

  1. Burkheads
  2. Burkholder
  3. burkholderial
  4. Burkholders
  5. Burkian
  6. Burkina
  7. Burkina Faso
  8. Burkina Fasoan
  9. Burkina Fasoans
  10. Burkinabe
  11. Burkinabes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Burkina (page history and authors); Burkina Faso (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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