Country size comparison

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United Kingdom is around the same size as Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, making United Kingdom 88.84% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (45.9 million more people live in United Kingdom).
This to-scale comparison of Burkina Faso vs. United Kingdom uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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