Country size comparison
compared to
Malawi is about 1.6 times bigger than Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 65% larger than Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (12.1 million more people live in Malawi).
This to-scale comparison of
Sierra Leone
vs.
Malawi
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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