Country size comparison

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Kuwait is about 1.7 times smaller than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 58.7% the size of Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (874,185 more people live in Kuwait).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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