Country size comparison

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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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