Country size comparison
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Malta is about 868 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Malta is approximately 316 sq km, making Malta 0.12% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (21.5 million fewer people live in Malta).
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