Country size comparison
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Sudan is about 7 times bigger than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Sudan is approximately 1,861,484 sq km, making Sudan 579% larger than Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (26.0 million more people live in Sudan).
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