Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 6 times smaller than Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 16.99% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (8.4 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sierra Leone vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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