Country size comparison
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Burkina Faso is about 4.7 times smaller than Peru.
Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, while Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, making Burkina Faso 21.33% the size of Peru. Meanwhile, the population of Peru is ~32.3 million people (10.3 million fewer people live in Burkina Faso).
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