Country size comparison
compared to
Sierra Leone is about 5 times smaller than Japan.
Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 18.98% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (115.5 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
This to-scale comparison of
Japan
vs.
Sierra Leone
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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