Country size comparison

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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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