Country size comparison
compared to
Sierra Leone is about 3.8 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 26.16% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (13.2 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
This to-scale comparison of
Burkina Faso
vs.
Sierra Leone
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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