Country size comparison
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El Salvador is about 3.4 times smaller than Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 29.33% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (2.1 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
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