Country size comparison

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Hong Kong is about 27 times smaller than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 3.65% the size of Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (5.1 million more people live in Hong Kong).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Hong Kong uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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