Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 1.6 times bigger than Washington.
Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 59% larger than Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~6.7 million people (15.2 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Washington
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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