Country size comparison
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Sierra Leone is about 6 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 17.76% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (28.6 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
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