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Old Name For Burkina Faso

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53%5 A language spoken in Burkina Faso and Mali
noun

• any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions

53%6 Shares its borders with Burkina Faso, Benin, and Mali
noun

• the capital and largest city of Niger

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