Burkina Faso is about 1.8 times smaller than Turkmenistan.

Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 56.18% the size of Turkmenistan. Meanwhile, the population of Turkmenistan is ~5.6 million people (16.3 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of Turkmenistan vs. Burkina Faso uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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