Country size comparison

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Sierra Leone is about 17 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 5.78% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (12.0 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Sierra Leone uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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