Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 13 times bigger than El Salvador.
El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 1,203% larger than El Salvador. Meanwhile, the population of El Salvador is ~6.6 million people (15.4 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
El Salvador
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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