Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 1.6 times bigger than Uruguay.
Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 56% larger than Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (18.5 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Uruguay
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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