Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 4.2 times smaller than Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 23.56% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (20.1 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Burkina Faso vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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