Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 2.1 times bigger than Alabama.
Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 109% larger than Alabama. Meanwhile, the population of Alabama is ~4.8 million people (17.2 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Alabama
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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