Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 49 times smaller than Alaska.

Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 2.05% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (1.5 million more people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Alaska vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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