Country size comparison
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Kuwait is about 15 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 6.5% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (18.9 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
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