Country size comparison
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Sierra Leone is about 3.5 times smaller than Michigan.
Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 28.64% the size of Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (1.2 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
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