Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 1.9 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km,
while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making
Burkina Faso 89% larger than Iowa.
Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people
(18.9 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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