Country size comparison
compared to
Sierra Leone is about 2 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km,
while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making
Sierra Leone 49.83% the size of Illinois.
Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people
(4.1 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Sierra Leone
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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