Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 3.7 times smaller than Louisiana.

Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 26.9% the size of Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.5 million people (2.3 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Louisiana vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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