Country size comparison

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Niger is about 4.6 times bigger than Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Niger is approximately 1,267,000 sq km, making Niger 362% larger than Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (2.5 million more people live in Niger).
This to-scale comparison of Burkina Faso vs. Niger uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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