Key facts
- 1958
- Max Berthet (acting)
- Capital
- Ouagadougou
- Demonym
- Upper Voltese
- 1948 1953
- Albert Mouragues
- 1957 1958
- Yvon Bourges
- Historical era
- Interwar · Cold War
- Established
- 1 March 1919
- Abolished
- 5 September 1932
- Reestablished
- 4 September 1947
- Autonomy
- 11 December 1958
- Independence
- 5 August 1960
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- colony
- Country
- France
- Continent
- Africa
- Capital
- Ouagadougou
- Official language
- French
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- inception
- 1919-03-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1958-12-11
- language used
- French
- replaces
- Upper Senegal and Niger
- replaced by
- Republic of Upper Volta
- Commons category
- French Upper Volta
- territory claimed by
- France
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofBurkina Faso a. President of the Government Council.
Burkina Faso (1984–present)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “French Upper Volta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.