Country size comparison
compared to
Sierra Leone is about 6 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 15.5% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (900,892 fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Sierra Leone
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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