Country size comparison

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Australia is about 255 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 25,402% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (23.9 million more people live in Australia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Australia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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