Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 13 times bigger than Lesotho.
Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 1,231% larger than Lesotho.
Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people
(35.1 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Lesotho
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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