Country size comparison

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Senegal is about 1.4 times smaller than Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Senegal is approximately 196,722 sq km, making Senegal 71.74% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (4.0 million fewer people live in Senegal).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Burkina Faso vs. Senegal uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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