Country size comparison
compared to
Sierra Leone is about 2.4 times bigger than Belgium.
Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 135% larger than Belgium. Meanwhile, the population of Belgium is ~11.8 million people (3.2 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
This to-scale comparison of
Belgium
vs.
Sierra Leone
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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