Country size comparison
compared to
Lesotho is about 2.3 times smaller than Ireland.
Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km,
while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making
Lesotho 43.2% the size of Ireland.
Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people
(3.1 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
This to-scale comparison of
Ireland
vs.
Lesotho
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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