Country size comparison

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Sierra Leone is about 5 times smaller than Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe is approximately 390,757 sq km, while Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, making Sierra Leone 18.36% the size of Zimbabwe. Meanwhile, the population of Zimbabwe is ~15.1 million people (6.4 million fewer people live in Sierra Leone).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Zimbabwe vs. Sierra Leone uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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