Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 6 times smaller than Missouri.

Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 17.01% the size of Missouri. Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.0 million people (3.8 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Missouri vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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