Country size comparison
South Africa
compared to
Burkina Faso
South Africa is about 4.5 times bigger than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 345% larger than Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (35.6 million more people live in South Africa).
We have positioned the outline of Burkina Faso near the middle of South Africa.
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This to-scale comparison of
Burkina Faso
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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