Country size comparison
compared to
Netherlands is about 1.7 times smaller than Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 57.91% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (8.7 million more people live in Netherlands).
This to-scale comparison of
Sierra Leone
vs.
Netherlands
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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