Country size comparison
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Sierra Leone is about 9 times smaller than Somalia.
Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 11.25% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (3.7 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
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