Country size comparison
compared to
Washington is about 1.6 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, making Washington 62.85% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (15.2 million fewer people live in Washington).
This to-scale comparison of
Burkina Faso
vs.
Washington
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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