Country size comparison
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Denmark is about 6 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Denmark is approximately 43,094 sq km, making Denmark 15.72% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (16.0 million fewer people live in Denmark).
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