Datasets:
burkina-faso
8,835 polygons from burkina-faso-latest.osm.pbf on Geofabrik
(source), filtered by the
22,075-tag whitelist and
classified by continent + size bin.
| field | value |
|---|---|
| country | burkina-faso |
| polygons | 8,835 |
| extract_status | clean |
| pbf_date | 2026-07-02 |
| source | burkina-faso-latest.osm.pbf |
| Geofabrik extract | https://download.geofabrik.de/africa/burkina-faso.html |
Geometry
The parquet file in this folder
(burkina-faso.parquet) has the same schema as the combined
combined/all_world.parquet. Each row carries the polygon
geometry as WKT (default), plus centroid + area + the
whitelist-matched tag.
Load with:
import pyarrow.parquet as pq
table = pq.read_table("per_country/burkina-faso/burkina-faso.parquet")
df = table.to_pandas()
# df["geometry_wkt"] is a column of WKT strings; parse with shapely.wkt.loads
Notes
Landlocked West African country (formerly Upper Volta) crossed by three tributaries of the Volta River and transitioning from the Sudano-Sahelian savanna in the south to the Sahel in the north. Capital Ouagadougou and second city Bobo-Dioulasso have good OSM coverage; the northern Sahel is sparsely mapped. Geofabrik /africa/ PBF (~81 MB). Notable protected areas include the Arly and W National Parks (the latter a transboundary UNESCO site shared with Niger and Benin).