Country size comparison

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California is about 6 times bigger than Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 463% larger than Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (28.6 million more people live in California).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sierra Leone vs. California uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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