Country size comparison

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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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