Country size comparison
Burkina Faso
compared to
Mauritania
Burkina Faso is about 3.8 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 26.6% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (17.8 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
We have positioned the outline of Mauritania near the middle of Burkina Faso.
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This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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