Country size comparison

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Sierra Leone is about 6 times bigger than Connecticut.

Connecticut is approximately 12,548 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 472% larger than Connecticut. Meanwhile, the population of Connecticut is ~3.6 million people (5.1 million more people live in Sierra Leone).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Connecticut vs. Sierra Leone uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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