Burkina Faso is about 2.4 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 42.04% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (16.4 million fewer people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Burkina Faso uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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