Country size comparison

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Iran is about 54 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 5,330% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.4 million people (90.1 million more people live in Iran).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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