Country size comparison

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Taiwan is about 2 times smaller than Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, making Taiwan 50.15% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (14.9 million more people live in Taiwan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sierra Leone vs. Taiwan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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