Country size comparison
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Burkina Faso is about 35 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 2.86% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Burkina Faso).
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