Burkina Faso is about 8 times smaller than Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia is approximately 2,149,690 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 12.76% the size of Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, the population of Saudi Arabia is ~35.4 million people (13.4 million fewer people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of Saudi Arabia vs. Burkina Faso uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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