Serbia is 1.08× the size of Sierra Leone

Serbia covers about 77,600 km² (30,000 mi²) and Sierra Leone about 71,600 km² (27,600 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

77,600km²Serbia
71,600km²Sierra Leone

100 km

Serbia
Sierra Leone

What fits

Sierra Leone is 92% of the size of Serbia.
Serbia is larger by 6,020 km² (2,320 mi²), which is 8.4% of the area of Sierra Leone.
Measured in Belgiums: Serbia is about 2.53, Sierra Leone about 2.33.

How they differ

Serbia is larger, but Sierra Leone has the larger population: 7.6 million against 6.6 million, 1.14× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 106 in Sierra Leone against 85 in Serbia: Sierra Leone is 1.24× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 5,060 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Serbia at 44°N is drawn about 1.9× too large and Sierra Leone at 9°N about 1.0×, so the map shows Serbia as 2.06× the size of Sierra Leone instead of 1.08×.
Together Serbia and Sierra Leone cover 149,000 km², close to the size of Nepal (147,000 km², 1.4% smaller).
The gap between them, 6,020 km², is about the size of Palestine (6,070 km²).
At Sierra Leone's density, Serbia would have 8.2 million people (it has 6.6 million). At Serbia's density, Sierra Leone would have 6.1 million (it has 7.6 million).
Serbia's centre is 35.7° of latitude, about 3,960 km, farther north than Sierra Leone's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Serbia	1.08×
More people	Sierra Leone	1.14×
More crowded	Sierra Leone	1.24×
Farther north	Serbia	35.7° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Serbia	1.9× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Serbia	Sierra Leone
Belgium 30,700 km²	2.53×	2.33×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.32×	0.29×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.22×	0.20×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.21×	0.19×
France 548,000 km²	0.14×	0.13×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.02×	0.02×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 219	1 in 237

Each figure is the place's area divided by the yardstick's.

Side by side

	Serbia	Sierra Leone
Area, main territory	77,600 km²30,000 mi²	71,600 km²27,600 mi²
Population	6.6 millionWikidata, 2024	7.6 millionWikidata, 2017
Density	85 per km²	106 per km²
Official area	88,500 km²Wikidata	71,700 km²Wikidata
Capital	Belgrade	Freetown
Latitude range	42°N to 46°N	7°N to 10°N
Continent	Europe	Africa

Population: Wikidata 2024 and Wikidata 2017, covering each whole country. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Our measured 77,600 km² is 12% below Wikidata's official figure of 88,500 km². The official figure includes Kosovo, which Natural Earth draws as a separate place; together they measure 88,500 km².
Wikidata's official figure of 71,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 71,600 km², to within 2%.

Similar in size to Serbia

Similar in size to Sierra Leone

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. Main territory: the largest landmass and every part within 1,000 km of it.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. Comparisons use main-territory area.
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: 2026-11-11

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