Country size comparison

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Japan is about 12 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 1,145% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (122.0 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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