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AREA AND POPULATION. The Republic covers an area of 274,002 sq. km; population (estimate, 1974) 5•87m. Ouagadougou, the capital (124,779 inhabitants, of whom 1,000 Europeans) and Bobo-Dioulasso (102,059 inhabitants, of whom 1,500 Europeans), are communes de plein exercice. The principal autochthonous tribe are the Mossi (about 2•5m.).
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Paxton, J. (1976). Upper Volta. In: Paxton, J. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271050_166
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