Country size comparison
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Sierra Leone is about 8 times smaller than Botswana.
Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 12.33% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (6.3 million more people live in Sierra Leone).
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