Country size comparison
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Sierra Leone is about 1.8 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 56.86% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (842,877 fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
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