Country size comparison

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Austria is about 2.8 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Austria is approximately 83,871 sq km, making Austria 176% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (6.7 million more people live in Austria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Austria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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