Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 2.3 times smaller than Somalia.
Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 43.0% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (9.5 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Somalia
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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