Country size comparison
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Burkina Faso is about 8 times smaller than Greenland.
Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 12.66% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~56,831 people (24.0 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
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