Country size comparison

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Sweden is about 6 times bigger than Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 528% larger than Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (1.8 million more people live in Sweden).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sierra Leone vs. Sweden uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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