Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 11 times smaller than Malaysia.

Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 9.2% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~36.0 million people (33.6 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malaysia vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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