Country size comparison

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Burkina Faso is around the same size as Guinea.

Guinea is approximately 245,857 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 12% larger than Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Guinea is ~13.2 million people (8.7 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Guinea vs. Burkina Faso uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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