Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 19 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 5.22% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.6 million people (198,797 fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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