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Due to the widespread use of rarefied gas flow in micro-porous media in industrial and engineering problems, a pore-scale modeling of rarefied gas flow through two micro-porous media with fractal geometries is presented, using lattice Boltzmann method. For this purpose, square- and circular-based Sierpinski carpets with fractal geometries are selected due to their inherent behavior for real porous media. Diffusive reflection slip model is used and developed for these porous media through this study. With this respect, the planar Poiseuille flow is selected as a benchmark and validated with the literature. The effect of Knudsen number (Kn) on the permeability is investigated and compared in each geometry. It is shown that as Knudsen number increases, the permeability will increase due to the gas slippage effect on the solid blocks. In addition, it is observed that the permeability is more sensitive to the gaseous flow behavior at the slip and beginning of transition flow regimes. At last, the permeability relationship with Knudsen number is presented with a higher coefficient of determination for both fractal geometries, showing that this relation is logarithmic.