Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 3.5 times bigger than South Carolina.
South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 252% larger than South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (17.3 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
South Carolina
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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