Country size comparison

compared to

Burkina Faso is around the same size as Italy.

Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 90.99% the size of Italy. Meanwhile, the population of Italy is ~61.1 million people (39.2 million fewer people live in Burkina Faso).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Italy vs. Burkina Faso uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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