Country size comparison
compared to
Papua New Guinea is about 1.7 times bigger than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 69% larger than Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (12.3 million fewer people live in Papua New Guinea).
This to-scale comparison of
Burkina Faso
vs.
Papua New Guinea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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