Sierra Leone is about 27 times bigger than Rhode Island.

Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 2,551% larger than Rhode Island. Meanwhile, the population of Rhode Island is ~1.1 million people (7.6 million more people live in Sierra Leone).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Rhode Island vs. Sierra Leone uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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