Country size comparison
compared to
Lesotho is about 1.7 times smaller than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km,
while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making
Lesotho 59.4% the size of Costa Rica.
Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people
(3.0 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Lesotho
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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