Country size comparison
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Sierra Leone is about 3.8 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 26.16% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (13.2 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
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