Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 3.9 times smaller than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 25.81% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (4.0 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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