Country size comparison
compared to
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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