Country size comparison
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Djibouti is about 12 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Djibouti is approximately 23,200 sq km, making Djibouti 8.46% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (21.0 million fewer people live in Djibouti).
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