Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 6 times smaller than Libya.
Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km,
while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making
Burkina Faso 15.58% the size of Libya.
Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people
(14.8 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Libya
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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