Country size comparison
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Jamaica is about 25 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Jamaica is approximately 10,991 sq km, making Jamaica 4.01% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (19.1 million fewer people live in Jamaica).
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