Country size comparison

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Israel is about 1.4 times smaller than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Israel is approximately 21,937 sq km, making Israel 72.27% the size of Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (6.7 million more people live in Israel).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Israel uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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