Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 2.3 times smaller than Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 42.89% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (15.7 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
This to-scale comparison of Burkina Faso vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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