Country size comparison
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Samoa is about 25 times smaller than Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 3.95% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (8.5 million fewer people live in Samoa).
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