Country size comparison

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Burkina Faso is about 4.5 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 22.11% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (1.2 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Burkina Faso uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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