Country size comparison
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Sierra Leone is about 7 times smaller than Yemen.
Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 13.59% the size of Yemen. Meanwhile, the population of Yemen is ~31.0 million people (22.3 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
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