Re: CHAT: Ability of Americans & Europeans to locate each others cities (was Re: The [??] attribute)

Roger Mills writes:
 > Frank George Valoczy wrote:
 >
 >
 > >On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
 > >
 > >> Ouagadougou is the capital of Cameroun (at least when written with the
 > French
 > >> orthography), former Haute-Volta. I still remember it because such a name
 > sound
 > >> so silly in a French ear that it's unforgettable :)) .
 > >
 > >I found it on a globe when I was 6 or 7 and found the name hilarious.
 > >
 > >BTW Haute-Volta is now called Burkina Faso, it was part of French West
 > >Africa.
 > >
 > This is getting confusing.  I agree with Burkina Faso, which I think used to
 > be Mali???, which used to be part of FWA.....?
 >

Okay, using the _Philip's Atlas of the World_ and _CIA World
Factbook_:

Burkina Faso, capital Ouagadougou, formerly Haute-Volta (Upper Volta),
became independant of France in 1960.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/uv.html

Bordered on the northwest by Mali, capital Bamako; to the northeast by
Niger, capital Niamey; and to the south (moving from West to East) by
Cote d'Ivoire, capital Abidjan; Ghana, capital Accra; Togo, capital
Lomé; and Benin, capital Porto Novo.

Mali, capital Bamako, formerly Sudanese Republic, formerly French
Sudan.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ml.html

Cameroon, capital Yaoundé, formerly French Cameroon and parts of
British Cameroon.  It's some way southeast of Burkina Faso, on the
other side of Benin and Nigeria (Lagos).

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cm.html