Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is about 3.4 times smaller than Nigeria.
Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km,
while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making
Burkina Faso 29.68% the size of Nigeria.
Meanwhile, the population of Nigeria is ~225.1 million people
(203.1 million fewer people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Nigeria
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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