Country size comparison
compared to
Sweden is about 1.6 times bigger than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 64% larger than Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (11.5 million fewer people live in Sweden).
This to-scale comparison of
Burkina Faso
vs.
Sweden
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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