Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 3.8 times bigger than Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 282% larger than Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (13.2 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Sierra Leone
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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