Country size comparison
compared to
Japan is about 5 times bigger than Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 427% larger than Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (115.5 million more people live in Japan).
This to-scale comparison of
Sierra Leone
vs.
Japan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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