Country size comparison

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Bahamas is about 5 times smaller than Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Bahamas is approximately 13,880 sq km, making Bahamas 19.35% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (8.3 million fewer people live in Bahamas).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sierra Leone vs. Bahamas uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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