Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is around the same size as Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 97.01% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (21.3 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Burkina Faso
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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