Country size comparison

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China is about 134 times bigger than Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 13,277% larger than Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sierra Leone vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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