Country size comparison
compared to
Nicaragua is about 2.1 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 47.55% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (15.6 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
This to-scale comparison of
Burkina Faso
vs.
Nicaragua
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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