Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 1.6 times smaller than Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 62.56% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (18.5 million fewer people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Iraq
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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