Country size comparison

compared to

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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