Country size comparison
compared to
Nicaragua is about 1.8 times bigger than Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 82% larger than Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
This to-scale comparison of
Sierra Leone
vs.
Nicaragua
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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