Puerto Rico is about 8 times smaller than Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 12.69% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (5.6 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of Sierra Leone vs. Puerto Rico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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