Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 14 times bigger than Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 1,337% larger than Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (4.5 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Sierra Leone
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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