Country size comparison
compared to
Japan is about 1.4 times bigger than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 38% larger than Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (102.3 million more people live in Japan).
This to-scale comparison of
Burkina Faso
vs.
Japan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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