Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 2 times bigger than Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 101% larger than Sierra Leone.
Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people
(4.1 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Sierra Leone
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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