Country size comparison

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Sierra Leone is about 1.7 times bigger than Netherlands.

Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 73% larger than Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (8.7 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Netherlands vs. Sierra Leone uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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