Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 1.9 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 52.77% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (18.9 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Burkina Faso
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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