Country size comparison

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Alaska is about 49 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 4,780% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (1.5 million fewer people live in Alaska).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Alaska uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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