Country size comparison
compared to
Sierra Leone is about 8 times smaller than Botswana.
Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 12.33% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (6.3 million more people live in Sierra Leone).
This to-scale comparison of
Botswana
vs.
Sierra Leone
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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