Country size comparison
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Greenland is about 8 times bigger than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 690% larger than Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (21.9 million fewer people live in Greenland).
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