Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 3.7 times bigger than Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 271% larger than Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (8.0 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Sierra Leone
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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