Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 1.2 times smaller than Republic of the Congo.
Republic of the Congo is approximately 342,000 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 80.18% the size of Republic of the Congo. Meanwhile, the population of Republic of the Congo is ~5.5 million people (16.4 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Republic of the Congo
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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