Rhode Island is about 27 times smaller than Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 3.77% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (7.6 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sierra Leone vs. Rhode Island uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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