Country size comparison
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Iceland is about 2.7 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 37.56% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (21.6 million fewer people live in Iceland).
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