Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 3.9 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 287% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (4.0 million more people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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