Country size comparison
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Uganda is around the same size as Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Uganda is approximately 241,038 sq km, making Uganda 87.91% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (24.3 million more people live in Uganda).
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