Country size comparison
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Burkina Faso is about 9 times smaller than Algeria.
Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 11.51% the size of Algeria. Meanwhile, the population of Algeria is ~44.2 million people (22.2 million fewer people live in Burkina Faso).
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