Country size comparison
compared to
Somalia is about 2.3 times bigger than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making Somalia 133% larger than Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (9.5 million fewer people live in Somalia).
This to-scale comparison of
Burkina Faso
vs.
Somalia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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