Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 19 times smaller than Madagascar.

Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 5.17% the size of Madagascar. Meanwhile, the population of Madagascar is ~28.2 million people (26.0 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Madagascar vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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