Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 1.7 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 59.24% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (12.3 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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