Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 2.6 times bigger than Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 161% larger than Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (12.9 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Sierra Leone
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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