Country size comparison
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Burkina Faso is about 1.7 times smaller than Cameroon.
Cameroon is approximately 475,440 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 57.67% the size of Cameroon. Meanwhile, the population of Cameroon is ~29.3 million people (7.4 million fewer people live in Burkina Faso).
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