Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 255 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 0.39% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (23.9 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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