Country size comparison

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Burkina Faso is about 4.6 times smaller than Niger.

Niger is approximately 1,267,000 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 21.64% the size of Niger. Meanwhile, the population of Niger is ~24.5 million people (2.5 million fewer people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of Niger vs. Burkina Faso uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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