Country size comparison

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Sierra Leone is about 5 times smaller than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 18.98% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (115.5 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Sierra Leone uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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