Country size comparison

 Sierra Leone
compared to
 Illinois, USA

Sierra Leone is about 2 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 49.83% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (4.1 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone). We have positioned the outline of Illinois near the middle of Sierra Leone.
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Flip comparison: see Sierra Leone on top of Illinois
This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Sierra Leone uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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