Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 8 times smaller than Michigan.

Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 12.12% the size of Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (7.7 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Michigan vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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