Country size comparison
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Malawi is about 2.3 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 43.21% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (1.1 million fewer people live in Malawi).
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