# burkina-faso

8,835 polygons from `burkina-faso-latest.osm.pbf` on Geofabrik
([source](https://download.geofabrik.de/africa/burkina-faso.html)), filtered by the
[22,075-tag whitelist](https://github.com/NoeFlandre/osm-stats) 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:

```python
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).