Country size comparison
compared to
Gabon is around the same size as Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Gabon is approximately 267,667 sq km, making Gabon 97.62% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (19.6 million fewer people live in Gabon).
This to-scale comparison of
Burkina Faso
vs.
Gabon
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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