Country size comparison
compared to
Burkina Faso is around the same size as Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 3% larger than Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (21.3 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Burkina Faso
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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