Country size comparison
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Swaziland is about 16 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Swaziland is approximately 17,364 sq km, making Swaziland 6.33% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (20.8 million fewer people live in Swaziland).
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