Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 4.7 times bigger than Lesotho.
Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 374% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (10.6 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Lesotho
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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