Country size comparison

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Japan is about 5 times bigger than Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 427% larger than Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (115.5 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sierra Leone vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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