Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 2.2 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 117% larger than North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (12.4 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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