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).
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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