Country size comparison
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Burkina Faso is about 1.7 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 59.24% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (12.3 million more people live in Burkina Faso).
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