Country size comparison

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District of Columbia is about 172 times smaller than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.58% the size of Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (1.6 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. District of Columbia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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