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The country owes its former name of Upper Volta to three rivers which cross it: the Black Volta ( or Mouhoun ), the White Volta ( Nakambé ) and the Red Volta ( Nazinon ).

The Black Volta is one of the country's only two rivers which flow year-round, the other being the Komoé, which flows to the southwest.

The basin of the Niger River also drains 27 % of the country's surface.