Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 10 times smaller than Italy.

Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 10.07% the size of Italy. Meanwhile, the population of Italy is ~61.1 million people (58.9 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Italy vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Lesotho to Italy · OECD 2023
1 people moved from Lesotho to Italy.
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