Country size comparison

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Switzerland is about 7 times smaller than Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 15.05% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (13.4 million fewer people live in Switzerland).
This to-scale comparison of Burkina Faso vs. Switzerland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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