Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 4.8 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 20.98% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (852,385 fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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