Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 1.2 times bigger than Laos.
Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 16% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (14.2 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Laos
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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