Country size comparison

compared to

British Indian Ocean Territory is about 506 times smaller than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while British Indian Ocean Territory is approximately 60 sq km, making British Indian Ocean Territory 0.2% the size of Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.4 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in British Indian Ocean Territory).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. British Indian Ocean Territory uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.