Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 1.9 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 90% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (9.1 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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