Country size comparison
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Sierra Leone is about 2.4 times bigger than Lesotho.
Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 136% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (6.5 million more people live in Sierra Leone).
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