Country size comparison

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Russia is about 238 times bigger than Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 23,734% larger than Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (133.3 million more people live in Russia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sierra Leone vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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