Country size comparison
compared to
Sierra Leone is about 1.7 times bigger than Netherlands.
Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 73% larger than Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (8.7 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
This to-scale comparison of
Netherlands
vs.
Sierra Leone
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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