Sierra Leone is about 1.7 times smaller than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 58.67% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (10.7 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Sierra Leone uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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