Country size comparison
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Sierra Leone is about 1.6 times smaller than Eritrea.
Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 61.0% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (2.5 million more people live in Sierra Leone).
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