Country size comparison
Sierra Leone
compared to
South Africa
Sierra Leone is about 17 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 5.88% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (48.8 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
We have positioned the outline of South Africa near the middle of Sierra Leone.
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This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Sierra Leone
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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