Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 4.3 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 23.28% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (4.1 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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