Country size comparison

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Kenya is about 19 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Kenya is approximately 580,367 sq km, making Kenya 1,812% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (53.7 million more people live in Kenya).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Kenya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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