Maybe interesting to know: Thomas Sankara was the one who renamed the country from upper volta to Burkina Faso. He also achieved food self-sufficienty, was the first head of state to promote women's rights and much more

Who else was watching full screen and thought their monitor died?

Thomas Sankara "the revolutionary" as he's called here is one of the most admirable humans in history. Check him out if you're interested in Burkina Faso.

At the end that really was an intense moment of transition

Whoa can't wait for Zimbabwe

Forget the whip, lets all do the ouagadougou.

Thomas Sankara was actually a good dude who really helped the country a lot, before being assassinated.

UPDATE: Oh great, literally ONE day after I uploaded this video Burkina Faso JUST experienced a military coup and the interim leaders have been detained RIGHT before elections. Come on Burkina Faso, you couldn't even wait ONE DAY to make my video outdated in information. Thanks

No oil? Looks like America will not be bring Burkina Faso freedom and democracy anytime soon

Thomas Sankara. Great guy.

Thomas Sankara was a brilliant leader. Hell, along with Red Rosa, he's one of the few that even Tankies like. Frankly, Sankara was incredible. He prioritized Woman's rights. He banned female genitalia Mutilation, Forced Marriage, Polygamy, and lived in realitive squalor; donating much of his profits to the poor, taking only what he needed. He worked with the people, and helped the poor. A brilliant figure.

Love from Libya To Burkina faso 🇱🇾 ❤ 🇧🇫

For a second I thought my computer was down.

I was so looking forward to Burkina Faso because Thomas Sankara is one of my heroes. He is like the West African version of Patrice Lumumba (another hero of mine). I suggest that anyone interested in great revolutionaries read (or research) up on Thomas Sankara. He was a champion of the poor and his life was living proof of that.

Long live our country of Burkina Faso! Vive notre pays du Burkina Faso!

Flags: Red usually = blood Green usually = agriculture/nature

"And definitely not that offensive word that I know you're all thinking about and getting all 13-year old Japanese school-girl giggly about, BOB SAGET" - Paul 2015

Is anyone else surprised how Paul hadn't got 200,000 subs yet but creates awesome videos every time :)

I'm Burkinabé and I found your video quite accurate. A few precisions tho.. Mandeka and Bambara are almost the same. it's a langage spoken in the West of Burkina, in Mali, Ivory Coast, Guinea... with little variation depending on the region. And football (wich you call soccer) is still the most popular sport by far. no one watches rugby over here. The political transition was troubled by a military coup that lasted only two weeks after the people and most of the army opposed to it. so the elections were held in December instead of November, and won by Roch Kabore, a former parliament speaker.

Mom: ,,Why don't you play with the child from the neighbourhood?" The neighbour child: 2:16

Just googled Thomas Sankara... I don't know their history but at first, he looks like a great man who tried to be "of the people, by the people and for the people"... Is my first impression false? I'd love to have few comments from someone who is from Burkina Faso

Proud to be African! Proud to be Burkinabé! La Patrie ou la mort nous vaincrons✊🏾

An American that doesn't completely slaughter french pronunciation... +1

Holy schnikes! Both the traditional and modern architecture in Burkina Faso is ridiculously cool. I'd love a house painted with that zigzaggy geometrical pattern.

I thought my connection went out when the video blacked out near the end.

Swedish cars, cars with pewdiepie's face slapped on it quality!

*Thomas Sankara Lives On!*

Thomas Sankara LIVES! Viva la revolución

am I the only one really interested in the political systems of each country too?

Ouagadougou is almost as cool as Tegucigalpa.

binge Wathcing geography now! :p

The architecture looks amazing! I'd like to visit someday.

New video!!! Paul your channel is the best on youtube, you and GeographyHub should totally collaborate

in egyptian arabic, faso means "they farted"

2:34 that's the old Herman flag! The last time france changed their flag was the beginning of the 1800's

Such an intelligent man. I hated geography at school but now I wish you were my teacher. Just can't stop watching and learn!!!¡

Paul! One of your videos was shown in front my Importing/Exporting and Trading college class! Now I'm hooked to your videos! So far the only thing useful to come from that class haha.

Great video, you mention a lot of thing I didn't know and a lot of things that I didn't even know I didn't know… However, you should have highlighted the great paper Sankara played in Burkina Faso. Seriously, he was one of the best leaders in the history of humanity. I understand that this is geography, not history, but seriously, you should have mentioned at least some of his great actions for that country.

Yet another great video! keep up the great work Paul! You and CGPGrey are probably my favorite youtubers - you teach important information in an amusing way that can keep people interested!

You are an amazing youtuber and I just wanted to say thank you for doing this. I could easily tell that these video's take incredibly long to create and as a History/Geography fanatic just wanted to show you how much I love this.

I am Brazilian and always accompany these videos, I love geography and that way is even better !!

Amazing video! I liked the fact that you really went deeper into the ethnic groups a bit more. Best video so far in my opinion(besides Bandiaterra)

Can't wait for Ghana and Nigeria! Love, love your channel!

I AM ALWAYS SO AMAZED BY YOUR WORK. I have been subscribed to this channel for quite some time (since the Belgium video, if I remember correctly.) and I can honestly with my hand on my heart say I've never been this interested in Geography. My own Geography teacher besides that is a living bedtime story for my long class naps, so I am incredibly thankful that everyone behind Geography Now! boozed my interest in this subject! Thank you. :D

Holy crap, the quality really improved from even the last video! It's really cool to see your development as a video maker as this series goes on :)

The quality of the videos has improven so much! Maybe when he's half-way trough the list, he could re-master some of the bigger Names for each letter (Argentina, Austria, Brazil, and so on...) I know is a lot to ask, and it would be a long video, but he could do 1 minute per nation or something like that AND IT WOULD BE REALLY AWESOME!

OMG i cannot wait for South Africa 🇿🇦

Just found this channel. I love geography and was really searching for a good channel. I'm quite pleased.

So, unofficially, Burkina Faso’s flag could also represent its physical features, as follows: 🟥Red = The Sahel Region (North; red dirt). 🟩Green = The forest region (South). ⭐️Yellow Star = The gold that’s mined in the country. 🇧🇫

burkina faso is my country who else

These videos just keep getting better and better.

The editing keeps getting better and better!

4:07 the most painful part about watching an old geography now video. my ears

Barby, c-can I be your Ken?

I love this channel so much!

I am glad that you are back Barb. I hope your dad is doing well and that you are feeling ok after everything,and I like fhe episode btw :)

I'm addicted to this channel. *I need help*

In future go into detail about the ancient history like the first humans in the area and historical kingdoms. I wanna learn more about the Mossi kingdom. I'm just afraid he will skip the history of African or south America nations but talk about the Romans in Italy or the Celts in Britain and barely mention the Songhai of Mali or the Nubians of Egypt and Sudan.

great work Mr. P B , Burkina Faso , ( Upper Volta ) video is another wonderful work, great efforts indeed . greetings from IRAQ

I love this channel!

6 children on average... Jesus

Your videos are so good and I learn a lot from them. I can't wait until you do Ethiopia and Somalia and some other red hot zones

Wow, Paul, you've started putting out videos pretty fast now. I didn't expect this for another week or so...keep up the good work!

I just discovered this channel and I love it....thank you for making these videos! I started playing the map games on Seterra, which is making me curious about various countries.

Could you do an update video about what happened in Burkina Faso please?

Does the flag represent the country's geography?: red desert in the north, green forest in the south, and the big capital city in the middle

Thanks for these amazing videos! Super excite for more! :D

loving the videos!

So if Burkina means "Honorable people" Faso means "Fatherland" so Burkina Faso = Honorable People Fatherland

9:47 TOGO HAS NO EYES

This channel has more subs than the population of Greenland multiplied by two!! Which is amazing! Keep up the good work Paul!

You are awesome - thank you! Just love you.

3:10 woah, he's psychic.

Thomas Sankara is the greatest human who ever walked in earth

Love to Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 from Belgium 🇧🇪

love your videos barby!

Thomas Sankara is my hero!

okay the first picture of ouagadougou at 3:59 reminded me of Pyongyang!!

Those architectures. Wow. I love to visit this place!

Best ending yet! Great video again. A country I knew very little about

10:54 I know this was posted 6 years ago, but, if the camera ran out of space and you knew that it had only a few space left (if you knew), then why did you film it on that one? Couldn't you just buy a new one?

better for the camera to run out of space near the end rather than in the middle :D

Thanks bro. I have watched all your videos.

Great Video...My mother is from Burkina Faso and loved the information.

Who else had no idea this place existed

Ah, ça fait tellement plaisir, ces quelques phrases en français.! :) Keep going, you're doing great.!

Thanks you for doing this video about my country

That was a great ending

No ones talking about how it looks like the vietcong flag

Man you are so good - so well informed !!

this definitely would’ve been helpful in that ONE project i had years ago in 8th grade. been years and i still remember how difficult it was to get information.

Great ending Paul

2:10 Ouagadougou 😃😄😁😆

Dat feeling when theres a new Geography Now episode^^

Wow best video every time ....... and even better than previous one's

Hey Barby, I watched every video of you from the first one till the one about Bulgaria in 2 days and I love them all.I am going to do a important english presentation in 5/6 weeks (I live in germany) and I think that your channel is a good topic for it.So here is my question: Can I use screenshots from the videos for the presentation?There are only two teachers in front of me and it would make it much easier. Looking forward to new videos of you (especially germany and turkey) and just stay as you are now.I already learned a lot :D

Just saw that there was a coup and new government established today, first time I have ever heard of this country. Weird since sí love geography.

Another awesome vid :3

I absolutely love this channel! I'm pretty sure you're past that at this point, but I still have that rebrand if you're interested! If not, I would be glad to create another one. I absolutely love this channel and stay up until it's out every sunday(or Monday morning). Keep up the awesome work Paul!

Tu parles français très bien!