Country size comparison

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Djibouti is about 1.3 times smaller than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Djibouti is approximately 23,200 sq km, making Djibouti 76.43% the size of Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (1.2 million fewer people live in Djibouti).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Djibouti uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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