Country size comparison
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Sierra Leone is about 2.4 times smaller than Washington.
Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 41.63% the size of Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~6.7 million people (2.0 million more people live in Sierra Leone).
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