Country size comparison

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China is about 316 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 31,516% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from China to Lesotho · UN DESA 2020
221 people born in China live in Lesotho.
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