Sub-Saharan Africa · BFWhere is Burkina Faso?
Burkina Faso is grouped in the World Bank's Sub-Saharan Africa region. Its listed capital is Ouagadougou. The profile's representative coordinates are 12.36° N, 1.53° W; they are orientation points, not geometric centroids or boundary claims.
How large is Burkina Faso?
EqualAtlas calculates a consistent spherical area from the same Natural Earth boundary geometry used for the map. For Burkina Faso, that mapped area is approximately 273,691 square kilometres, ranking #75 among 238 mapped country and territory profiles. It may differ slightly from figures published by national statistical offices because coastlines, inland water and territorial definitions vary by dataset.
People and place
Burkina Faso had a World Bank population value of 24,074,580 in 2025. Using the displayed mapped area, that is about 88 people per square kilometre. Area and population answer different questions, so EqualAtlas keeps their reference methods visible rather than combining them into an unexplained ranking.
For wider context, the latest imported World Bank GDP value is $27.6B for 2025, ranking #118 among 185 profiles with data. This current-dollar measure should not be read as a cost-of-living or household-income comparison.
The latest imported life expectancy at birth value is 61.3 years for 2024, ranking #206 among 215 profiles with data. It is a period estimate based on prevailing mortality rates, not a prediction for an individual person.
Population and economic data: World Bank Open Data. Boundary geometry: Natural Earth via world-atlas. Data and methods are explained on the data sources page.
Countries and territories closest in mapped area
These are the three profiles whose mapped areas are nearest to Burkina Faso under the same geometry and spherical calculation.
New Zealand
Gabon
Philippines