Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 9 times smaller than Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 11.07% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (19.7 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
This to-scale comparison of Burkina Faso vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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