Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 4.7 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 21.09% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (10.6 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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