Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 58 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 1.73% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (4.9 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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