New Brunswick is 1.02× the size of Sierra Leone

New Brunswick (province of Canada) covers about 72,800 km² (28,100 mi²) and Sierra Leone (Africa) about 71,600 km² (27,600 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

72,800km²New Brunswick
71,600km²Sierra Leone

100 km

New Brunswick
Sierra Leone

What fits

Sierra Leone is 98% of the size of New Brunswick.
New Brunswick is larger by 1,170 km² (452 mi²), which is 1.6% of the area of Sierra Leone.
Measured in Belgiums: New Brunswick is about 2.37, Sierra Leone about 2.33.

How they differ

New Brunswick is larger, but Sierra Leone has the larger population: 7.6 million against 776,000, 9.74× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 106 in Sierra Leone against 11 in New Brunswick: Sierra Leone is 9.90× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 6,660 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: New Brunswick at 47°N is drawn about 2.1× too large and Sierra Leone at 9°N about 1.0×, so the map shows New Brunswick as 2.11× the size of Sierra Leone instead of 1.02×.
Together New Brunswick and Sierra Leone cover 144,000 km², close to the size of Suriname (145,000 km², 0.5% bigger).
The gap between them, 1,170 km², is about the size of São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 km²).
At Sierra Leone's density, New Brunswick would have 7.7 million people (it has 776,000). At New Brunswick's density, Sierra Leone would have 763,000 (it has 7.6 million).
New Brunswick's centre is 38.1° of latitude, about 4,230 km, farther north than Sierra Leone's.
New Brunswick is the 11th largest of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and covers 0.7% of its area; it is the 4th most densely populated of them.
Sierra Leone ranks 120th of 246 countries and territories by area.
New Brunswick lies about 38° of latitude (roughly 4,230 km) north of Sierra Leone.
Shared out evenly, each person in New Brunswick would have about 93,840 m² and each person in Sierra Leone about 9,480 m².
Laid side by side, New Brunswick and Sierra Leone would cover 144,000 km², about the same size as Suriname.
Together they have 8.3 million people, about as many people as Honduras.
Counted as a country, New Brunswick would rank 119th by area and 166th by population.

Side by side

	New Brunswick	Sierra Leone
Is a	ProvinceCanada	CountryAfrica
Area, measured	72,800 km²28,100 mi²	71,600 km²27,600 mi²
Official area	72,900 km²Wikidata	71,700 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	11th of 13in Canada	119th of 239worldwide
Population	776,000Wikidata, 2021	7.6 millionWikidata, 2017
Rank by population	8th of 13in Canada	102nd of 237worldwide
Density	11 per km²	106 per km²
Capital	–	Freetown
Latitude range	45°N to 48°N	7°N to 10°N

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2017. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 72,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 72,800 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 71,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 71,600 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain for the region; Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A region is drawn whole, every island included; a country is its main territory.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-12

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