Country size comparison
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Puerto Rico is about 30 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 3.32% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (18.8 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
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