Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 3.9 times bigger than Ireland.
Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 290% larger than Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (16.7 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Ireland
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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