Country size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
New Zealand
vs.
Lesotho
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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