Country size comparison
compared to
Sierra Leone is about 1.6 times smaller than Malawi.
Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 60.55% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (12.1 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
This to-scale comparison of
Malawi
vs.
Sierra Leone
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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