Country size comparison

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France is about 18 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 1,717% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (66.1 million more people live in France).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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