Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 4.5 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 22.49% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (35.6 million fewer people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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