Country size comparison

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Slovakia is about 6 times smaller than Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Slovakia is approximately 49,035 sq km, making Slovakia 17.88% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (16.5 million fewer people live in Slovakia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Burkina Faso vs. Slovakia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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