Country size comparison
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Burkina Faso is about 4 times smaller than Ethiopia.
Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 24.83% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (91.7 million fewer people live in Burkina Faso).
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