Country size comparison
compared to
New York is about 1.7 times bigger than Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 70% larger than Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (10.7 million more people live in New York).
This to-scale comparison of
Sierra Leone
vs.
New York
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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