Country size comparison
compared to
Sierra Leone is about 1.4 times smaller than Virginia.
Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 69.96% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (691,582 more people live in Sierra Leone).
This to-scale comparison of
Virginia
vs.
Sierra Leone
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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