Country size comparison
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Burkina Faso is about 9 times bigger than Lesotho.
Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 803% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (19.7 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
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