Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 11 times bigger than Maryland.
Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 983% larger than Maryland. Meanwhile, the population of Maryland is ~5.8 million people (16.2 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Maryland
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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