Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 2.4 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 42.04% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (16.4 million fewer people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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