Sierra Leone is about 14 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 6.96% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (4.5 million more people live in Sierra Leone).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Sierra Leone uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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