Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 9 times smaller than New Zealand.

New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 11.29% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (2.9 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New Zealand vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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