Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 3.8 times bigger than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 276% larger than Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (17.8 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Burkina Faso
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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