Burkina Faso is about 7 times bigger than Switzerland.

Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 564% larger than Switzerland. Meanwhile, the population of Switzerland is ~8.5 million people (13.4 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of Switzerland vs. Burkina Faso uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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