Country size comparison
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Sierra Leone is about 15 times smaller than Ethiopia.
Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 6.5% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (105.0 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
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