Country size comparison
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Rwanda is about 10 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 9.61% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (8.8 million fewer people live in Rwanda).
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