Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 5 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 437% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (16.7 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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