Country size comparison

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Maryland is about 2.8 times smaller than Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 35.29% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (2.9 million fewer people live in Maryland).
This to-scale comparison of Sierra Leone vs. Maryland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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