Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 1.5 times bigger than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 47% larger than Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (15.3 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Burkina Faso
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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