Country size comparison

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Arkansas is about 2 times smaller than Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Arkansas is approximately 134,856 sq km, making Arkansas 49.18% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (19.0 million fewer people live in Arkansas).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Burkina Faso vs. Arkansas uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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