Burkina Faso is around the same size as Michigan.

Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 9% larger than Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (12.1 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of Michigan vs. Burkina Faso uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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