Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is around the same size as Michigan.
Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 9% larger than Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (12.1 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Michigan
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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