Nord · Burkina Faso
Ouahigouya population
124,587people · latest figure
Ouahigouya has a population of 124,587, making it the 5th largest place we list in Burkina Faso. It is in Nord.
Ouahigouya holds 0.51% of Burkina Faso's 24,601,700 people. Ouagadougou, the largest place we list there, is 19 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 61,096, a rise of 104%.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Bobo-Dioulasso | Hauts-Bassins | 904,920 |
| Koudougou | Centre-Ouest | 160,239 |
| Saaba | Centre | 136,011 |
| Kaya | Centre-Nord | 121,970 |
| Banfora | Cascades Region | 117,452 |
| Pouytenga | Centre-Est | 96,469 |
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.