Country size comparison

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South Carolina is around the same size as Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, making South Carolina 9% larger than Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (4.1 million fewer people live in South Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of Sierra Leone vs. South Carolina uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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