Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 2.4 times bigger than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 138% larger than Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (16.4 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Burkina Faso
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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