Country size comparison

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Sierra Leone is about 3.7 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 26.97% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (8.0 million more people live in Sierra Leone).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Sierra Leone uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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