Country size comparison
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Burkina Faso is around the same size as Michigan.
Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 9% larger than Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (12.1 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
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