Country size comparison
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French Polynesia is about 66 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while French Polynesia is approximately 4,167 sq km, making French Polynesia 1.52% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (21.6 million fewer people live in French Polynesia).
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