Country size comparison
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Gambia is about 24 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 4.12% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (19.5 million fewer people live in Gambia).
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