Country size comparison
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Burkina Faso is about 2.1 times smaller than Botswana.
Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 47.14% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (19.6 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
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