URI(s)

• http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79099508

Instance Of

• MADS/RDF Geographic
• MADS/RDF Authority
• SKOS Concept

Scheme Membership(s)

• Library of Congress Name Authority File

Collection Membership(s)

• Names Collection - Authorized Headings
• LC Names Collection - General Collection

Variants

• Ouagadouga (Burkina Faso)
• Wagadugu (Burkina Faso)
• Ouaga (Burkina Faso)

Additional Information

• http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n79099508

• Descriptor

  Capitals (Cities)

• Descriptor

  Cities and towns

• Associated Locale

  Burkina Faso

Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

• http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC%7Cn+79099508#skos:Concept

Earlier Established Forms

• Ouagadougou (Upper Volta)
• Ouagadougou, Upper Volta

Sources

• found: GEOnet, March 3, 2013 (Ouagadougou (approved); variants: Ouagadouga; Wagadugu; capital of a political entity; Burkina Faso, ADM1: Centre; 12°22ʹ13ʺN 001°31ʹ29ʺW)
• found: Wikipedia, March 3, 2013 (Ouagadougou; capital of Burkina Faso; city's name is often shortened to Ouaga; the spelling of the name is derived from the French orthography common in former French African colonies. If English orthography were used, the spelling would be Wagadugu; 12°21ʹ26ʺN 1°32ʹ7ʺW)

Change Notes

• 1979-10-16: new
• 2015-08-17: revised

Alternate Formats

• RDF/XML (MADS and SKOS)
• N-Triples (MADS and SKOS)
• JSON (MADS/RDF and SKOS/RDF)
• MADS - RDF/XML
• MADS - N-Triples
• MADS/RDF - JSON
• SKOS - RDF/XML
• SKOS - N-Triples
• SKOS - JSON
• MADS/XML
• MARC/XML