Country size comparison
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Burkina Faso is about 2.1 times smaller than Madagascar.
Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 46.71% the size of Madagascar. Meanwhile, the population of Madagascar is ~28.2 million people (6.2 million fewer people live in Burkina Faso).
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