Country size comparison
compared to
Lesotho is about 13 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km,
while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making
Lesotho 7.52% the size of California.
Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people
(35.1 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Lesotho
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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