Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 3.9 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 25.62% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (18.6 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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