Country size comparison

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Rwanda is about 2.7 times smaller than Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 36.71% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (4.5 million more people live in Rwanda).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sierra Leone vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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