Country size comparison
compared to
Sierra Leone is about 2 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km,
while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making
Sierra Leone 49.58% the size of Iowa.
Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people
(5.6 million more people live in Sierra Leone).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Sierra Leone
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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