Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 36 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 2.75% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (111.5 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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