Country size comparison
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Suriname is about 1.7 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 59.74% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (21.3 million fewer people live in Suriname).
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