Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 41 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 2.45% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (18.5 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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