republic of the upper volta
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.96 in modern English
42
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
6
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "On December 11, 1958, the Territorial Assembly transformed itself into the Constituent and Legislative Assembly, and on February 28, 1959, adopted the Constitution of the Upper Volta. This was finally approved by 75 per cent of the voters in a referendum held on March 15, 1959, and officially proclaimed on March 19. Thus was born the “one and indivisible” Republic of the Upper Volta, autonomous member State of the Community."
- "Perhaps the most heartening interlude of the entire program came with the emergency use of the vaccines in the Republic of the Upper Volta, where one out of every five children under the age of 6 years dies from measles."
- "Often called “Africa's Che Guevara,” [Thomas] Sankara renamed the Republic of the Upper Volta as Burkina Faso, or “land of the upright people,” and set about making the country more self-sufficient before he was assassinated in 1987."
Inflected Forms
the Republic of the Upper Volta (canonical)