Country size comparison

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Democratic Republic of the Congo is about 9 times bigger than Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Democratic Republic of the Congo is approximately 2,344,858 sq km, making Democratic Republic of the Congo 755% larger than Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (86.5 million more people live in Democratic Republic of the Congo).
This to-scale comparison of Burkina Faso vs. Democratic Republic of the Congo uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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