Country size comparison
compared to
Maldives is about 241 times smaller than Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.42% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (8.3 million fewer people live in Maldives).
This to-scale comparison of
Sierra Leone
vs.
Maldives
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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