Country size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Lesotho
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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