Total & land area: Guyana vs Sierra Leone size comparison

Guyana is 3 times bigger by total area compared to Sierra Leone: 83,000 sq mi vs 27,699 sq mi. Without inland water, the land area of Guyana is 81,522 sq mi vs 27,869 sq mi for Sierra Leone — a 2.93 times difference in territory size.

Guyana ranks 83/197 by total surface area vs 117/197 for Sierra Leone.
Guyana occupies 0.14% of the land mass of all countries, compared with 0.05% for Sierra Leone.
3.41% of Guyana's area is agricultural land vs 54.7% in Sierra Leone.
Guyana has 0.02% of the world's agricultural land area — Sierra Leone has 0.08%.
87.1% of Guyana is covered by forests, compared to 34.3% in Sierra Leone.
0.46% of the world's forests are in Guyana, and 0.06% are in Sierra Leone.

True size map comparison: Guyana vs Sierra Leone

See how Guyana and Sierra Leone compare in true size on the map. Drag the outlines to different latitudes to see how the Mercator projection affects their apparent size.

Total size and land area comparison

	Guyana	Sierra Leone
Total area	83,000 sq mi	27,699 sq mi
Size difference ratio	3	1
Total area rank	83/197	117/197
Share of all countries' surface area	0.04%	0.01%
Land area	81,522 sq mi	27,869 sq mi
Land area difference ratio	2.93	1
Land area rank	82/197	116/197
Share of all countries' land area	0.14%	0.05%
Population	831,087	8,642,022
Population density	10.3 ppl/mi²	323 ppl/mi²

Surface area by type

	Guyana	Sierra Leone
Forest area	70,995 sq mi	9,559 sq mi
Forest area as share of land	87.1%	34.3%
Forest area rank	35/196	98/196
World's forests share	0.46%	0.06%
Agricultural land area	2,780 sq mi	15,247 sq mi
Agricultural land share	3.41%	54.7%
Agricultural land area rank	144/194	96/194
Share of global agricultural land	0.02%	0.08%
Arable land	375 sq mi	6,116 sq mi
Arable land share	0.46%	21.9%
Arable land area rank	150/191	89/191
Permanent cropland	112 sq mi	637 sq mi
Permanent cropland share	0.14%	2.29%
Permanent cropland area rank	143/192	90/192
Water area	1,479 sq mi	0 sq mi
Water as share of total area	1.78%	0%
Water area rank	76/197	191/197
Roads length	2,482 mi	7,270 mi
Land borders length	1,822 mi	679 mi
Coastline length	285.2 mi	249.8 mi
Share of marine protected waters	0.1%	1.7%

Guyana vs Sierra Leone size on the map

Data sources: World Bank | Agriculture & Rural Development (2026, retrieved 2026-04-06).

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The map above outlines the borders of Guyana and Sierra Leone but is not accurate for size comparison because it's a 2d map with Mercator projection that distorts territories near the poles. The farther a country is from the equator, the more magnified it appears. More about country size projections.