Country size comparison
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Malta is about 227 times smaller than Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Malta is approximately 316 sq km, making Malta 0.44% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (8.2 million fewer people live in Malta).
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