Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 19 times smaller than Kenya.

Kenya is approximately 580,367 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 5.23% the size of Kenya. Meanwhile, the population of Kenya is ~55.9 million people (53.7 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kenya vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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