Country size comparison

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South Africa is about 17 times bigger than Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 1,599% larger than Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (48.8 million more people live in South Africa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sierra Leone vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from South Africa to Sierra Leone · UN DESA 2020
77 people born in South Africa live in Sierra Leone.
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