Country size comparison
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Guyana is about 1.3 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Guyana is approximately 214,969 sq km, making Guyana 78.4% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (21.1 million fewer people live in Guyana).
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