Country size comparison

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Burkina Faso is about 3.9 times bigger than Ireland.

Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 290% larger than Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (16.7 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of Ireland vs. Burkina Faso uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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