Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 1.9 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 52.5% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (9.1 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Burkina Faso
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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