Country size comparison
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Sierra Leone is about 1.7 times smaller than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 59.52% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (17.3 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
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