Country size comparison
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Sierra Leone is about 6 times smaller than Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 16.37% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (31.8 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
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