Examples of use of Upper Volta
1. Russia was unfairly disparaged in the 1''0s as "Upper Volta with missiles," but few would view "North Korea with oil" as progress.
2. The countries worst affected by this disaster 30 years ago were Mauritania, Mali, Upper Volta (now called Burkina Faso) and Niger.
3. I do not want to cast any aspersions on Burkina Faso, "the land of upright people," because it is poor, isolated and almost completely forgotten even if that may be the reason the Jerusalem street named after the country is still called Upper Volta Street.
4. The old quip about the Soviet Union being "Upper Volta with rockets" fits it perfectly – a state that is poor, underdeveloped and unfree but which has an eyecatching strategic capability designed to give it a role on the global or regional stage – and perhaps help it obtain security guarantees and economic aid.