Afghanistan is about 2.4 times bigger than Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 138% larger than Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (16.4 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of Burkina Faso vs. Afghanistan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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