Country size comparison
compared to
Latvia is around the same size as Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 90.03% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (6.9 million fewer people live in Latvia).
This to-scale comparison of
Sierra Leone
vs.
Latvia
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