Country size comparison
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Sierra Leone is about 9 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 11.0% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (29.7 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
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