Country size comparison

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Burkina Faso is about 1.6 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 60.89% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (11.5 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Burkina Faso uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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