Country size comparison

compared to

Burkina Faso is about 6 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 16.64% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (64.8 million fewer people live in Burkina Faso).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Burkina Faso uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.