Country size comparison

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Cabo Verde is about 18 times smaller than Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Cabo Verde is approximately 4,033 sq km, making Cabo Verde 5.62% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (8.1 million fewer people live in Cabo Verde).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sierra Leone vs. Cabo Verde uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Cabo Verde to Sierra Leone · UN DESA 2020
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