Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 1.5 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 67.89% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (15.3 million fewer people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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