Country size comparison
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Sierra Leone is about 13 times smaller than Tanzania.
Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 7.57% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (55.2 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
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