Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 2.7 times bigger than Virginia.
Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 167% larger than Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (13.9 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Virginia
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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