Country size comparison
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Algeria is about 9 times bigger than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, making Algeria 769% larger than Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (22.2 million more people live in Algeria).
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