Burkina Faso is around the same size as Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 3% larger than Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (21.3 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Burkina Faso uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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