Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 3.4 times smaller than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 29.5% the size of Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (2.1 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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