Country size comparison
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El Salvador is about 13 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 7.67% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (15.4 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
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