Country size comparison

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Sierra Leone is about 3.8 times smaller than New Zealand.

New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 26.69% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (3.6 million more people live in Sierra Leone).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New Zealand vs. Sierra Leone uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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