Usually means: Former French colony in Africa.
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  1. upper volta: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Upper Volta: Merriam-Webster
  3. Upper Volta: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Upper Volta: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Upper Volta: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Upper Volta: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. Upper Volta: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. upper volta: Dictionary.com
  9. Upper Volta (disambiguation), Upper Volta: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Upper volta: Rhymezone
  11. upper volta: FreeDictionary.org
  12. upper volta: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Upper Volta, Volta, Upper: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. Upper Volta: Vocabulary.com
  15. Upper Volta: Wiktionary

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  1. Upper Volta, Volta, Upper: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Upper Volta)

▸ noun:  (historical) A former country (1958-1984) in West Africa; now Burkina Faso.

Similar:
Burkina Faso, Upper Voltan, volta, Burkina, voltaic, French West Africa, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Guelwongo, more...

Opposite:
Lower Volta, Ghana

Phrases:
upper volta franc, Republic of Upper Volta, French Upper Volta, more...

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Similar:
Burkina Faso, Upper Voltan, volta, Burkina, voltaic, French West Africa, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Guelwongo, more...

Opposite:
Lower Volta, Ghana

Phrases:
upper volta franc, Republic of Upper Volta, French Upper Volta, more...



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