Country size comparison

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Burkina Faso is about 2.3 times bigger than Mississippi.

Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 126% larger than Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (19.0 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of Mississippi vs. Burkina Faso uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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